The circadian rhythm dictates our energy level throughout the day, and only recently we've been conducting a global experiment on this rhythm, which is putting our sleep health and ultimately our life quality in jeopardy. Because of this, we aren't getting the sleep we need, with the average American sleeping a whole hour less than they did in the 1940s.
昼夜节律影响了我们一整天中的能量多寡，到最近，我们针对此节律进行了一项全球性实验，结果显示，昼夜节律让我们的睡眠健康以及最终我们的生命质量处于危险之中。我们没有得到我们需要的睡眠，美国人的平均睡眠时间比上世纪40年代整整少了一小时。
For some reason, we decided to wear it as a badge of honor that we can get by on not enough sleep. This all adds up to a real health crisis. Most of us know that poor sleep is linked to diseases like Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes. And if you go untreated with a sleep disorder like sleep apnea, you're more likely to get many of these illnesses.
出于某种原因，我们却把它当荣誉奖章，以睡眠不足却仍能过活为荣。这些因素通通加起来，就成了真实的健康危机。大部分人知道睡眠不足和疾病相关，比如阿兹海默症、心血管疾病、中风和糖尿病。而且如果你有睡眠失调，像睡眠窒息，却没去治疗，你就更可能会患上许多这类疾病。
But did you know about sleep's impact on your mental states? Poor sleep makes us make risky, rash decisions and is a drain on our capacity for empathy. When sleep deprivation literally makes us more sensitive to our own pain, it's not so surprising that we’ve a hard time relating to others and just generally being a good and healthy person when we're sleep-deprived.
但你知道睡眠对你的心理状态有什么冲击吗？睡眠不足会让我们做出冒险、鲁莽的决策，且它会消耗掉我们同感共鸣的能力。当缺乏睡眠真的让我们对自身的痛苦更敏感时，我们就很难与别人和睦相处了，这不足为奇。而且当睡眠不足时，我们连大体上做个健康的好人都很难。
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