导语：随着科技的发展，在信息获取渠道多元化的今天，传统的阅读方式很难满足碎片化的时间要求。虽然大脑是专注的单线程CPU，不能一心二用，但在一些日常枯燥重复的事情中，我们可以通过听觉来获取接受信息，传统的视觉传达对此嗤之以鼻，但真实的情况如他们认为的那样么？于人类而言，应感恩造物主让人类具备感知声音的能力，这让我们又开启了一扇通往知识的大门。
Listening to Audiobooks Is No Cheating
The question concerning the validity of listening to an audiobook compared to reading a physical book has been posed fairly often.
关于听有声书和阅读实体书的效果的问题最近被频频提起。
Audiobooks are often seen as cheating because they are "easier,"
听有声书被看成是一种“作弊”，因为这“更简单”，
even though from the perspective of cognitive psychology, there are virtually no differences between listening to a book and reading it.
尽管从认知心理学的角度来说，听书和看书并没有实质上的差别。
In a post on his blog, psychology professor Daniel Willingham explains a model of reading known as the "simple view."
在心理学教授丹尼尔·威灵汉姆发表的一篇博客里，他解释了一种名为“简易视图”的阅读模式。
The simple view claims there are two processes that contribute to reading: decoding and language processing.
“简易视图”认为阅读由两个过程组成：解码和语言处理。
The decoding is translating the letters into words that hold significance. The language processing is figuring out the story being told.
解码就是将字母翻译为有意义的词语。语言处理就是理解文字所要表达的内容。
Decoding and language processing are not vastly different for listening or reading comprehension.
解码和语言处理在听力理解和阅读理解的过程中并没有很大区别。
Listening does not require decoding, but according to Willingham, the process of decoding in reading becomes automatic after elementary school.
在听的过程中不需要解码，但是据威灵汉姆称，在接受了小学教育以后，阅读过程中的解码环节就会自动发生了。
Therefore, the argument that we cannot understand a story in audio format the same way we could in physical format falls flat.
因此，听有声书无法像阅读实体书那样深入地理解书里的内容的说法是错误的。
People listening to an audiobook or reading a physical book have the same potential to retain and comprehend the words they consumed and do the same amount of mental work.
不论人们是听有声书还是阅读实体书都能接收并且理解书中的字词，都需要同等程度的思考。
Some argue that audiobooks are cheating because they don't require as much attention.
一些人认为听有声书是一种“作弊”，因为这样只需投入更少的注意力。
This is untrue because when doing any activity, be it reading a book or listening to one, it can be easy for our minds to wander and get distracted.
这种观点并不正确，因为不论做什么，是听有声书还是阅读实体书，我们都会很容易走神。
We still have to concentrate when listening to an audiobook.
在听有声书的时候，我们还是得集中注意。
With audiobooks, experiencing a story becomes more manageable and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
听有声书能够使故事情节的体会变得更加可控并且也适合忙碌的生活节奏。
One can listen while doing mindless tasks such as walking, cleaning and eating.
我们可以在走路、打扫卫生、吃饭以及在做一些不需要动脑的事情的时候听有声书。
While there are certainly people who cannot focus on an audiobook the same way they could on a physical book, that is not a strong enough argument to deem audiobooks as inferior.
尽管肯定有人在听有声书的时候无法像阅读实体书那样集中精力，但是由此认为有声书低实体书一等是没有说服力的。
It is simply a matter of preference over how we want to absorb a story.
这就是一个“我们想让故事以何种形式呈现”这么一个简单的事儿。
Where one person might fail to connect with an audiobook, another might thrive.
可能有的人无法与有声书建立联系，但是对有的人来说却可能产生很好的效果。
Audiobooks are not of lesser quality. They can even add more to the story than the physical copy.
有声书并不比实体书差，甚至比实体书更能生动地呈现书中的内容。
With an audiobook, a listener can deduce a lot of information based on the narrator's tone of voice.
听实体书，通过朗读者的声音的起伏，听众可以推测出许多信息。
Reading physical books is encouraged because it can help develop close analytical and writing skills.
我们鼓励阅读实体书，因为在阅读的过程中可以促进分析和写作能力的提升。
Listening to audiobooks should be encouraged because it can help foster close listening skills, which are equally as important.
听有声书也应该被推广，因为它能培养我们精听的能力，这也是同等重要的。
There is an idea that by listening to audiobooks, we're experiencing the story in a way the author did not intend because we're analyzing the speaker's style of narration as opposed to the author's writing style.
有观点认为，听有声书，我们对故事的理解是基于朗读者的声音而非作者的文字，这会导致我们对故事原意的理解有偏差。
However, this argument doesn't hold up.
然而，这种观点并不成立。
When reading a physical book, we read in our own voice and can construe the story differently than intended by the author.
即使是我们自己在阅读实体书的时候，也是通过我们自己的声音来理解分析故事的，这也不能说是作者的本意。
Whether listening to an audiobook or reading a physical book, the potential to see the story differently from what was planned by the author is the same.
所以不管是听有声书还是阅读实体书，我们的理解与作者本意出现偏差的可能性是一样的。
整理：2024年2月19日于经典龙苑
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