If you make a New Year’s resolution to exercise or eat healthily and do it daily until March 7, it is likely to stick - suggest researchers who claim that it takes 66 days for a "healthy" pledge to become an ingrained habit.
如果你在新年下決心要運動或吃得健康，並且每天落實至三月七日，就可能堅持下去—研究人員宣稱，一個「健康的」誓願要成為根深柢固的習慣，需時66天。
Reporting in the European Journal of Social Psychology, the researchers started to investigate how long it took for the repetition of behaviour to reach the ’automacity’stage - where it is performed whenever the situation is encountered without thinking, awareness or intention.
刊登在歐洲社會心理學期刊的報告顯示，研究人員開始探究行為的重複需要多久才能到達「自動性」階段—在這一階段，無論何時遭遇到該狀況，不需要思考、察覺或意向，就會執行該行為。
To reach the conclusion, the study’s volunteers were asked to choose a healthy eating, drinking or exercise behaviour that they would like to make into a habit, reports The Telegraph.
為了得出結論，研究自願者被要求選定健康飲食、飲酒或運動等希望養成習慣的行為，電訊報報導。
Results showed that whilst the average time to form a habit was 66 days, more complex behaviours took longer, whilst an exercise habit took longer to form than a healthy eating or drinking habit.
結果顯示，一個習慣的養成平均時間是66天，較複雜的行為費時較久，而運動習慣的養成所費時間要比健康飲食或飲酒的習慣還長。
新聞辭典
stick︰動詞，在此指堅持、忠於。例句︰She stuck through thick and thin.（在任何情況下她都堅定不移。）
ingrained︰形容詞，根深柢固的、徹頭徹尾的。例如︰an ingrained fool（十足的傻瓜。）例句︰The belief that one should work hard is ingrained in our culture.（人應努力工作的信念深印在我們的文化中。）
repetition︰重複、複製品、背誦。例如︰repetition compulsion（強迫性重複行為。）
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