A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “mental noise”—the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep

生詞

revolutionary??革命性的

shadows??陰影

neurologists??神經(jīng)學(xué)家

random??隨機的

neural-repair??神經(jīng)修復(fù)

desires? ?欲望

disguised??偽裝

句子分析；分四段

主干：Freud?formulated?his?revolutionary?theory

定于從句：that dreams?were?the disguised?shadows?of?our unconscious desires and fears

狀語從句：neurologists?had switched?to thinking of them as just “mental noise”

同位語從句：the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that?goes?on during sleep

翻譯：一個世紀前，弗洛伊德提出了他的突破性發(fā)現(xiàn)，夢是被偽裝的人的無意識的渴望和恐懼的反映。到了十九世紀七十年代，神經(jīng)病學(xué)家們對此有轉(zhuǎn)變了想法，他們認為夢是一種精神干擾，是人們在睡夢中進行神經(jīng)修復(fù)時所產(chǎn)生的一種隨機副產(chǎn)品