广播电视英语短句 第 231 课：孤独是可以传播-4

The study found that having a lonely friend can add about seventeen days. 研究发现有一位孤独寂寞的朋友会多增加 17 天。

But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half days. 但是每一个另外的朋友可以减少大约 5% ，也就是 2.5 天的孤独。

Lonely people become less and less trusting of others. 孤独寂寞的人很难信任其它人。

This makes it more and more difficult for them to make friends -- and more likely that society will reject them. 这使他们很难交到朋友，社会将来会排斥他们的可能性更高。

John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago led the study. 芝加哥大学的 John Cacioppo 领导的此项研究。