特别广播英语第 70 课：Sleepwalking - Fact or Fancy?
梦游，是真有其事还是虚构出来的？-1

There is an endless supply of stories about sleepwalkers. 关于梦游的人，有说不完的事：

Persons have been said to climb on roofs, solve mathematical problems, compose music, walk through windows, and commit murder in their sleep. 据说有些人在梦游中爬上了屋顶、解出了一些数学题、作了曲，从窗户走出去了，杀了人。

In Revere, Massachusetts, a hundred policemen searched for a lost boy who left his home in his sleep and woke up five hours later on a strange sofa in a strange living room, with no idea how he had got there. 在美国马萨诸塞州的里维尔市，一百名警察在搜找一个失踪了的男孩，这个男孩在睡眠中离开了家，5个小时以后在一间陌生的客厅中的一个陌生的长沙发上醒来了，他竟然一点也不知道他是怎么到了那儿。'

At the University of Iowa, a student was reported to have the habit of getting up in the middle of the night and walking three-quarters of a mile to the Iowa River. 在美国艾奥瓦，州立大学，据报导说，有个学生有个习惯，老是在半夜里起床然后步行3/4英里路走到艾奥瓦河，

He would take a swim and then go back to his room to bed. 他习惯于游一会泳，然后才回到他的房间上床就寝。

An expert on sleep in America claims that he has never seen a sleepwalker. 美国有位研究睡眠问题的专家说，他从来也没见过正在梦游的人。

He is said to know more about sleep than any other living man, and during the last thirty-five years has lost a lot of sleep watching people sleep. 据说他在睡眠问题方面的知识在世界上比任何人都懂得多，据说最近35年他放弃了很多睡眠时间去观察人们的睡眠状况。

Says he, "of course, I know that there are sleepwalkers because I have read about them in the newspapers. 他说，"当然，我知道有些人会梦游，因为我在报纸上看到过。

But none of my sleepers ever walked, and if I were to advertise for sleepwalkers for an experiment. I doubt that I'd get many takers." 但是我所观察过的睡眠中的人没有任何人会在睡眠中起来走路，倘使我真的登广告招聘有梦游经历的人前来参加我的实验的话，我看我就未必能招聘到很多人来参加实验。"

Sleepwalking, nevertheless, is a scientific reality. 然而，从科学的角度讲，梦游确是真有其事的。