【词汇大师】情感丰富(1/2)

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每个词汇都有它多姿多彩的情感。有开心，难过，愤怒，悲伤。。。
       
        TIPS
只需要听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。不需要听写的句子如下：
主持人的话①"What does this tell us, that 50 percent are negative, 30 percent are positive and 20 percent are neutral? What does this tell us about our emotions, or how we express ourselves?"
       
        HINTS
  Mexicans
        Mexico City
        Chicago
        Anglos
       
So that data was available to me, and I began to analyze it one day and found this rather curious difference. And that was that about 50 percent of the emotion words that people mentioned were negative, and about 30 percent positive and 20 percent neutral. And those proportions were consistent across all of these groups, from young Mexicans to older Mexicans in Mexico City and young to old English speakers in Chicago. For instance, here is the young Anglos, in order, the first five: happy, sad, angry, excited, afraid.
Now what's curious about that list is, happy is positive. That is one word. Then there is sad, angry, afraid  that is three negative and excited, which generally comes across to people as a neutral word.
Right, so that is the curious thing. So you could look at that list and entertain a number of hypotheses. You could say, well, you know, human beings just have more negative experiences than positive ones, and therefore .