A recent study from the science publication Current Biology attempts to determine the basic neurological and cultural reasons why people think music sounds pleasant or not.

为什么人们认为有的音乐声音听起来令人愉快或不愉快，科学刊物“当代生物学”最近发表的一项研究，试图确定基本的神经和文化层面的原因。

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One theory is that people simply find some music more pleasant for aesthetic or cognitive reasons.

一个理论是人们仅仅发现出于审美和认知目的一些音乐更动听。

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There could be any number of reasons for this, none of them especially pleasant to contemplate, but what we want to focus on today is just one of them: the gender make-up of Hollywood itself.

有很多的原因，没有一个特别愉快地让人静思，但是我们今天集中在其中一个：好莱坞自身的性别构成。

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Many such destinations are worth visiting for other reasons too: as well as being pleasant places to go on holiday, Iceland, Hawaii and the Greek island of Santorini all demonstrate, for example, the influence of vulcanism on island formation.

ECONOMIST: Good sport