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I'll be the first to admit it: My life would be a whole lot easier if I could speed-read. Instead of spending an hour poring over a dense scientific paper, I'd spend just a few minutes and understand everything perfectly.Unfortunately, while there are plenty of ads claiming they could teach me to do just that, a new study suggests those claims are basically bogus. For the study, published in Psychological Science.
我是第一個承認(rèn)這個事實(shí)的人：如果我能快速閱讀，那么我的生活會更加簡單。我可以用幾分鐘就完全理解所有事情，根本不用花一個小時去研究那厚厚的論文。不幸的是，雖然很多廣告都宣稱自己可以教我如何快速閱讀，但是一項最新研究表明，這些承諾都是假的。這份研究發(fā)表在了《心理科學(xué)》上。

For example, one argument is that speed-reading training helps you absorb more information in a single glance than you typically do. But the researchers say that "what limits our ability to process text is our capacity to recognise words and understand text" - and not how many words our eyes take in at a time.
例如，其中一個爭議就是，快速閱讀訓(xùn)練可以讓你一目十行，這比你按部就班地閱讀獲得的信息更多。但研究人員說，限制我們閱讀能力的是我們理解句子和文章的能力，而不是我們一次能夠看多少句子。

In 1980, in a most comprehensive review of speed-reading, scientists compared comprehension among a group of speed readers, normal readers, and people told to skim the text.Results showed that the speed readers understood the text better than the skimmers, but not as well as those reading at normal speed. If the speed readers hadn't looked directly at a specific passage, they weren't able to answer detailed questions about that part.
1980年，研究人員對快速閱讀進(jìn)行了一次最為詳細(xì)的研究，科學(xué)家們對比了幾組讀者的理解力，分別是：快速閱讀者、正常閱讀者和被告知要略讀文章的讀者。結(jié)果顯示，快速閱讀者比略讀者更好地理解文章，但卻不如正常速度的閱讀者。如果快速閱讀者沒有直接去看有答案的段落，那他們就無法回答關(guān)于那個段落的詳細(xì)問題。

And while they acknowledge that skimming can be useful when you're overloaded with information, they say skimmers necessarily make a "trade-off between speed and accuracy".
但研究人員承認(rèn)，當(dāng)你無法承載過多信息時，略讀會十分有效，他們稱必要的略讀是在尋找“速度與準(zhǔn)確性之間的平衡”。

So if you reached this point in the article within 10 seconds (busted!), there's little chance you absorbed it all. If you intended to skim, that's fine, but if you thought you were paying close attention, you should probably read it again.
所以，如果你10秒內(nèi)看到了這里，那么你很可能沒有完全理解文章哦。如果你故意略讀，那也行，但如果你覺得自己注意力集中，那你最好還是再讀一遍。

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