本篇文章是与睡眠姿势有关的，属于科普知识。慢速英语，语速正常。可以作为口译入门或基础英语听力口语听写的素材。大家快来挑战自己吧！
答案和解析来啦：
The average person will sleep about eight hours a day, so that’s a third of your life catching Z’s.
一般人每天要睡八个小时，也就是人生中三分之一的时间在睡觉。
If you live to the average age in most developed nations that will mean you’ll spend somewhere close to 10,000 days in bed asleep.
如果你活到多数发达国家的平均年龄，意味着你将有近10000个小时的时间在某处睡觉。
That’s more time spent sleeping than you’ll do any other activity, and of course we are not counting, breathing or thinking or seeing.
睡觉花费的时间远超其它活动，当然这其中不包括呼吸、思考和观看。
With this in mind, you have to give great respect to this thing we call sleep.
出于此类考虑，我们必须给予睡眠极大的尊重。
Sleep is our great relief, and countless studies tell us
睡眠能让我们放松，无数研究表明，
if we don’t get enough of it, or get too much of it, there will be negative consequences regarding our physical and mental health.
如果睡眠不足或睡眠过多，我们的身体健康和精神健康都会产生负面效应。
You best make sure you are sleeping right, given how much you do of it, and today we’ll tell you how to sleep well.
最好能够保证良好的睡眠习惯，考虑到你为此做出的努力，今天我们将告诉大家如何正确睡觉。
Before we get into the advice we’ll tell you that research has shown that quite a lot of people do actually sleep in the wrong position.
给出建议之前，我想告诉大家，研究表明，很多人的睡姿并不是正确的。
You might feel like it’s the best way to drift off, but some positions can cause people harm.
你也许觉得这样能更好地入睡，但有些睡姿会造成危害。
Some of the consequences of bad sleep positions might be you wake up with pains,
不良睡姿的后果可能会让你在起床的时候感到疼痛，
sometimes in the neck, sometimes in the back, shoulders or knees.
有时是脖子疼，有时是背部，肩膀或膝盖。
You might just feel stiff in the morning, a little bit too rigid.
你可能会在早上感到身体酸痛或僵硬。
But there’s more than that.
但危害远不止这些。
Some people snore because they are in the wrong position, and while we all let out a few nighttime grunts now and again,
有些人因为不良睡姿而打鼾，我们不时地会因此而嘟哝几句，
snoring can become a problem not only for your health but for your sleeping partner’s mental health.
打鼾不仅会影响自己的健康，还会影响同伴的精神健康。
解析在这里哦！
1. stiff，形容词，表示“酸痛的”，比如：The mud bath is particularly recommended for relieving tension and stiff muscles.（泥浴被特别推荐用于缓解紧张和肌肉酸痛。）
2. rigid，形容词，表示“僵硬的”，比如：rigid plastic containers（坚硬的塑料容器）。
3. snore，动词，表示“打鼾”，比如：His mouth was open, and he was snoring.（他张着嘴巴，打着鼾。）
4. grunts，动词，单词原形为：grunt，表示“（尤指厌烦或不感兴趣时）嘟哝着说”，比如：Harvey grunted disgustedly as he tossed in his cards.（哈维扔下了牌，厌烦地嘟哝着。）
