原标题：《The Hangover / 宿醉》

I'm never drinking again. And this time I mean it!

我再也不喝酒了。这次我是认真的！

Anyone who's suffered through a bad hangover has muttered these words.

任何宿醉的人都曾经喃喃自语过这句话。

But does a hangover even delay your next drink?

但是宿醉会推迟你下次喝酒吗?

Scientists recruited almost 400 adults who consumed alcohol at least once a week.

科学家门招募了近400名每周至少喝一次酒的成年人。

At the beginning of the study, the participants answered questions about alcohol and nicotine dependence.

在此项研究开始时，参与者回答了关于酒精依赖和尼古丁依赖的一些问题。

Afterwards, they kept drinking diaries for three weeks.

之后，他们持续记录了三个星期的饮酒日记。

They also kept morning and bedtime reports on their mental status and stress level.

他们还记录了自己在早晨和晚间的精神状态和压力水平。

To see if hangovers inspired participants to delay their next binge, researchers measured the time between drinking episodes.

为了观察宿醉是否会推迟下次纵饮，研究人员测量了两次饮酒的间隔时间。

On average, hangovers did postpone the next drink—but only by about 6 hours.

平均而言，宿醉确实推迟了下一次饮酒，但只推迟了6小时左右。

The work is published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

这项研究发表在《酒精中毒：临床和实验研究》杂志上。

In addition to discovering that hangovers fail to deter drinking, the study found that people with alcohol dependence or financial stress were more likely to develop hangovers.

除了发现宿醉不能阻止饮酒之外，研究还发现，有酒精依赖的人，或者经受着经济压力的人，更容易出现宿醉。

And of course, the only way to prevent hangovers entirely was to limit drinking. Cheers!

当然，防止宿醉的唯一方法就是限制饮酒。干杯!

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本文节选自《60-Second Science American》