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Think about driving a route that’s very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the back of your hand. On these sorts of trips it’s easy to lose concentration on the driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive that the trip has taken less time than it actually has.
This is the well-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route.
The effect is caused by the way we allocate our attention. When we travel down a well-known route, because we don’t have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more quickly. And afterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can’t remember the journey well because we didn’t pay much attention to it. So we assume it was shorter.
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今年英語二的翻譯在難度上有所上升。文中，雖沒有出現太多的生詞，但整體要從語義上完整通順地譯出來，這就需要考生結合上下文，採用增詞，意譯的方式來處理。對於臨時抱佛腳的考生而言，實屬有難度。
同時也給備考2016的同學以警醒：在掌握翻譯技巧的同時，一定要夯實基礎，平時多加練習，才能應對自如。
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想想看在一條非常熟悉的路上駕駛的感覺，這可能發生在上班，進城或回家的路上。無論如何，你會熟悉路上的每一個迂迴曲折。在這類旅行中，我們很容易會分散注意力並且不太關注路邊的風景。結果就是你誤以為旅途比實際所用的時間要少。
這是美妙的旅程所產生的效果：人們往往會低估在熟悉的旅程中所用掉的時間。
我們分散注意力的方式會導致這種結果。當我們在知名的路途中行駛時，我們不必過於集中精力，時間似乎過得飛快。隨後，當我們回想整個過程時，由於沒有特別留神，會變得印象模糊。此時，我們似乎會覺得這段旅程會更短些。