Power of Positive Speaking 语言正能量

如您想获得本篇文章的英文文稿、翻译及讲解资料，请加我的微信好友“JEworks”，或是添加我的微信公众号“为语筹谋”，输入关键字“积极词汇”。在那里，我还会将定期推送些免费的写作指导及口语表达等课程。 英文原稿 Optimists, you’re not alone: Turns out most people look on the bright side of life—or at least talk about it. A recent study by a data scientist Peter Dodds found a universal positive bias in languages. Researchers gathered billions of words from ten languages and 24 types of sources—books, news, social media—then identified the 5,000 words most frequently used in each tongue. When people were asked to rate words on a nine-point “happy-to-sad” scale, results were more positive than negative. And when words were translated across languages, people rated words similarly. Such a big-data study supports previous findings that human tend to focus more on the positive. —— end ——