翻译题目：

　　Think about driving aroute that’s very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into townor the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the backof your hand. On these sorts of trips it’s easy to loseconcentration 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 itactually has。

　　This is thewell-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes totravel a familiar route。

　　The effect is caused bythe 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. Andafterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can’t remember the journeywell because we didn’t pay much attention to it. So we assume it was shorter。

　　参考答案：

　　不妨想想在熟悉的道路上开车。可以是在你上下班的路上，也可以是在进城或回家的路上。不管是哪个，你对每一个拐弯都了如指掌。在这些熟悉的道路上开车，很容易失去注意力，也不会注意路边的风景。结果是，你觉得这次旅途花的时间比实际时间少。

　　这称为“熟路效应”：在熟悉的道路上开车时，人们往往会低估花费的时间。

　　这种效应是由我们分配注意力的方式所决定的。当我们沿着熟悉的路线驾车，因为我们不必太集中注意力，所以我们会觉得时间过得更快。后来，当我们回忆这个旅程时，我们却不记得了，因为我们根本没有注意它，所以我们认为它花的时间短。（文都供稿）