导读:许多人都认为快乐的时光总是转瞬即逝，但是斯坦福一位教授表示，当我们经历新事物的时候，大脑感觉到的时间被拉长了。
If you feel like your bank holiday weekend whizzed by, there is a simple trick to try which might make the next one seem a little longer.
如果你觉得你的银行休假日周末嗖的一声就过完了，那么本文就为你提供一个小技巧，可能会让你下一个假期稍微长一点儿。
Experiencing new things makes us think that time has lasted longer than it really did, according to a brain specialist.
据一名大脑专家表示称，经历新事物的时候我们会觉得时间要比真实情况更长一些。
Neuroscientist David Eagleman, a professor at Stanford University, said that novel experiences like a new place or new activity make it seem like time is stretching out.
斯坦福大学教授、神经学家大卫·依格曼表示，新地方和新活动等新的经历似乎可以把时间拉长。
Getting away for the weekend seems longer than spending time at home and exploring a new neighbourhood feels like it takes more time than staying indoors, he said.
据他表示，和宅在家相比周末出去玩的话时间似乎更长一些，而探索一个新小区似乎要比待在室内耗费更多时间。
Even a weekend holed up inside with a good book - so long as it is a new one - will seem like you have been mentally away for longer than you have.
即使周末你只是沉浸在一本好书里（只要这本书是新的），从心理上讲你的时间似乎就比以前更长一些。
Professor Eagleman said that the phenomenon exists because the the brain is more focused on collecting unfamiliar information into a memory.
依格曼教授表示这种现象的确存在，因为大脑更专注于收集陌生的信息到记忆中。
Speaking to science blog Science of Us, he said: ‘When you go and experience something novel, it seems to have lasted longer.
他在科学博客“我们的科学”上表示：“当你体验一些新事物的时候，时间似乎变长了。”
He said: ‘It’s why time seems to fly by so much faster as an adult then it did when you were young.
“这就是为什么和年轻时候相比，成年人的时间过得飞快。”
‘When you’re a kid, everything is novel and you’re laying down new memories about it’.
“当你还是个孩子的时候，一切事物对你而言都是新的，随时随地你都在录入新的记忆。”
Professor Eagleman, whose book The Brain: The Story of You explores the mysteries of the brain, said that the phenomenon stays with us our whole lives.
依格曼教授的著作《探索大脑奥秘的历史（The Brain: The Story of You explores the mysteries of the brain）》表示，这种现象会陪伴我们一生。
He said: ‘When you look back at the end of a childhood summer, it seems to have taken a long time because you remember this and that, this new thing, learning that, experiencing that.
他表示：“童年时，当你在夏季结束回顾的时候，你会觉得这个假期非常漫长，因为你遇到了许多新事物，经历并记住它们让你的时间变长了。”
‘But when you’re older, you’ve sort of seen all the patterns before’.
“但是当你年长之后，遇到的一切都已经让你见怪不怪了。”
The only catch is that the effect only happens in hindsight so you have to get the end of your holiday to feel that you really got the most out of it.
唯一的好处是这个现象只在事后出现，因此你必须等到假期结束的时候才能感觉得到。
