Examples of using " " in a sentence and their english translations:
I really don't like to watch horror films alone.
That stuff is terrifying, you know.
I'm sure many of you recognize this situation.
You put on a horror film,
you turn down the lights,
turn up the volume, and sit back.
You're watching as monsters come creeping out of the dark
in search of prey.
Your heart goes out to the poor characters in the film,
and you start squirming in your seat as the monsters get closer.
Your pulse accelerates,
your palms get sweaty,
and your hair stands on end.
This is when you begin to throw nervous glances
into the corners of the room.
What was that sound?
Surely it didn't come from the television?
Was that movement in the shadows?
The horror that's on the screen
You cover your eyes, but it doesn't help.
Pretty soon, you'll have to switch off.
But even though you shut off the film, your heart keeps hammering away.
You are kind of curious, after all.
That's my Saturday night in a nutshell.
Anybody else ever been in that situation?
Of all the strange things that humans do,
watching horror films has got to be one of the strangest.
It's also a really interesting behavior, scientifically speaking.
As a horror researcher, I have thought about it a lot.
Why do we do it?
Why do we watch horror films and read horror novels
and play horror video games?
And why are there so many spooky creatures in our worlds of make-believe?
And what is horror?
Horror is a kind of entertainment that's designed to spook people,
to make them scream and shiver with fear and break out in a cold sweat.
It's a consistently popular and profitable genre.
Stephen King has sold more than 350 million books worldwide.
In the last 20 years, in the United States,
horror films grossed close to 8 billion dollars.
It's weird.
It's weird because horror is by definition designed to make its audience feel bad.
A good horror film inspires negative emotion.
It makes us feel disgust and dread and terror and anxiety and fear.
Let me ask you -
how many of you seek out horror films from time to time?
Show of hands, please.
Raise your hand if you sometimes seek out horror.
or about 54%,
answer in the affirmative in response to the statement
"I tend to enjoy horror media."
Only 29% say they don't agree with this statement,
and the remaining 17% can't make up their mind.
the kind of entertainment that's designed to make them feel bad.
and here is what I've found out.
Horror, in whatever medium,
from films and literature to video games and virtual reality,
works by exploiting an ancient and evolved set of biological defense mechanisms.
Let's call it the "evolved fear system."
If we want to understand how that system works
and why it became part of human nature,
we have to look at the evolutionary history of our species.
There was the threat from predators and creepy-crawlies
In response to those dangers,
our ancestors gradually evolved a fear system
that would keep them alert and alive.
In other words, our species evolved to be hypervigilant and highly fearful
because being hypervigilant and highly fearful
kept our ancestors alive in a dangerous world.
The world may now be less dangerous than it was in ancestral times,
at least in terms of predation:
we're not in any immediate danger
of being attacked by a saber-toothed cat on our way home from work.
But we are no less vigilant and no less fearful
than our evolutionary ancestors.
into virtual worlds that are full of danger.
In horror films and literature,
we follow and mirror protagonists as they confront terrifying threats.
Take Stephen King's "The Shining," for example.
Here, we follow a family who is snowed in at a haunted hotel.
In the novel's most famous scene,
the young boy, Danny, goes into room 217.
The hotel is now supposed to be empty of guests,
but to Danny's surprise, there is somebody in the bathtub -
or some thing.
To Danny's horror, it's a corpse.
It's the corpse of the woman who killed herself.
She's lying there,
bloated and purple and with glassy, wide eyes.
She's rotting like meat festering in the trash.
And then she starts to get up.
King provides a detailed and really vivid description
of this moving corpse,
and as readers, we are forced to hold that image in our minds.
That's bad enough.
But we're also given a detailed description
of Danny's response to the situation.
We learn that he tries to scream and wets himself.
We are made to mirror his fear and revulsion,
and that strengthens our own responses to the horrible image.