Communicating by voice alone has its drawbacks, though.For example, I can’t use hand gestures to clarify what I mean. And, as it turns out, that makes a big difference. Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand wanted to know how much a relevant hand gesture helps to communicate an idea. They had volunteers watch video clips of a woman saying different simple phrases, such as “the square box,” or “peel the banana.”

光靠說話來溝通有它的缺點。比如，我不能用手勢來闡明我的意思。而這，結(jié)果證明，（對溝通）影響很大。新西蘭奧塔戈大學(xué)的調(diào)查者們想弄清楚一個相關(guān)的手勢能在多大程度上幫助人們溝通自己的觀點。他們讓志愿者們看幾段視頻，視頻中是一名女性在說不同的簡單短語，比如“方盒子”，“剝香蕉皮”。

In some, she simply said the phrase without moving her hands. Peel the banana. In others, she made the kind of hand gesture most of us would make when saying that–a sort of banana-peeling mime that matches the content of the phrase. In a third group, she made gestures with her hands that were unrelated to what she was saying.

有的視頻中，她只是說出來而沒有做手勢。剝香蕉。有的視頻中，她做了手勢，而且是當(dāng)說那個短語時，我們大多數(shù)人都會做的那類手勢-如同在表演符合剝香蕉過程的啞劇。還有的視頻中，她做了與她所說內(nèi)容無關(guān)的手勢。

The results? People who got the matching content hand gestures remembered those phrases more effectively than folks who got just the words alone. And folks who got just the words alone did better than folks who got irrelevant hand gestures!

結(jié)果呢？看到和所說內(nèi)容相關(guān)的手勢的人比那些只聽到說話聲音的人能更高效地記住了那些短語。而只聽到聲音的人比那些看到了和說話內(nèi)容無關(guān)的手勢的人（在短語記憶方面）做得更好。

What does this show us? We already knew that all the hand-waving we do when we speak isn’t just nervous energy; it serves various functions. Apparently, one of them is to help the listener remember what you’ve said.

這向我們說明了什么呢？我們已經(jīng)知道，我們說話時揮動雙手不僅僅是神經(jīng)能量的作用：這有各種功能。顯然，其中的一項功能便是能夠幫助聽話人記住你所說的話。

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Notes:
drawback:缺點
peel:剝，削
matching:對應(yīng)的
irrelevant:不相關(guān)的


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