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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Schizophrenia risk rises for babies born in famine 饑荒中出生的寶寶罹患精神分裂症風險較高
◎ 陳宜君
Children born during China's 1959-61 famine were twice as likely to develop schizophrenia, confirming a link between nutritional deficiency and the mental illness, researchers said.
在中國1959至61年饑荒時出生的小孩，罹患精神分裂症的可能較一般情況高出一倍，證實營養不良與此精神疾病有關，研究人員說。
Schizophrenia afflicts roughly 1 percent of the global population and tends to run in families, but the incidence of the illness has been found to have doubled during famines in China and the Netherlands.
全球大約1%的人口受精神分裂症折磨，且家人往往也會罹患，不過在中國和荷蘭已經發現，此種疾病在饑荒時期的發生機率會增加1倍。
The Chinese findings mirrored those from an earlier study of schizophrenia rates among people born in the Netherlands during the “Dutch Hunger Winter” of 1944-45.
前述在中國的發現，和稍早一項針對在荷蘭1944至45年「荷蘭飢餓冬季」期間出生者罹患精神分裂症比率的研究發現十分相似。
Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University examined records from around the city of Wuhu in Anhui Province, where the famine was acute and people starved to death in large numbers. The famine followed a season of bad weather and rural upheavals created by the government's “Great Leap Forward.”
來自上海交通大學的研究人員檢驗了安徽省蕪湖市周遭地區的紀錄，當年當地的饑荒相當嚴重，大批民眾餓死。這場饑荒緊跟在惡劣天候季節，以及政府的「大躍進」運動造成的農村動亂之後發生。
新聞辭典
afflict：動詞，使…承受痛苦。例句：It is one of the major problems currently afflicting third world countries. （那是目前困擾第三世界國家的主要問題之一。）
run：動詞，此處為以一定方向延伸、以某種狀態延續之意。例句：Good looks run in their family. （他們家族都長得很好看。）
mirror：本文中為動詞，與…十分相似之意，例如：My experience of working in this area mirrors yours. （我在這地區的工作經驗和你非常相似。）此處亦有精確反映之意，例如：These opinion polls really mirror what people are thinking. （這些民意調查確實反映人們的想法。）
acute：形容詞，本字有多種意義，在此為嚴重之意。若用於醫療術語，則是急性的意思；例如令全球聞之色變的「嚴重急性呼吸道症候群」（SARS），英文名稱即是「Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome」。
