2015考研英语答案：英语二翻译部分（沪江网校版）

Think about driving a route that’s very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the back of your hand. On these sorts of trips it’s easy to lose concentration on the driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive that the trip has taken less time than it actually has.
拿大家都熟悉的开车来举例。比如你要上班，到市区去一趟，或者回家。不管是何种情况，你都对每一个拐弯了熟于心。开这样的一段路，你很容易开着开着就不集中注意力了，也不在意沿途的风景。这样的结果就是，你会发现不知不觉就到达目的地。

This is the well-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route.
这就是熟路效应 —— 人们倾向于低估熟悉路程所花费的时间。

The effect is caused by the way we allocate our attention. When we travel down a well-known route, because we don’t have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more quickly. And afterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can’t remember the journey well because we didn’t pay much attention to it. So we assume it was shorter.
这一效应是由我们分配精力的方式引起的。当我们走熟悉的路线，因为不会特别上心，时间似乎过得更快。而后回想起来，因为漫不经心，我们记不太清沿途的事物。所以，我们会觉得比实际短。