摘要：At 146 years old, psychology is no spring chicken, but compared to physics or biology, it’s a toddler.

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no spring chicken 不再年轻

At 146 years old, psychology is no spring chicken, but compared to physics or biology, it’s a toddler.

尽管已有146年历史，心理学已不算年轻，但相较于物理学或生物学，它仍只是个"学步的孩童"。

on the chopping block 面临被削减/取消的危险；砧板上的肉

On Trump’s chopping block are high-profile, decades-in-the-making projects such as NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission and the next- generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

roll one’s eyes 翻白眼（表示不以为然或厌烦）

Culture is littered with ideas that would have any decent psychologist rolling their eyes.

文化中充斥着各种会让任何一位严谨的心理学家都忍不住翻白眼的观点。

in its infancy 处于萌芽或早期发展阶段

give rise to 引起，导致

Since the subject is still in its infancy, a lot of the early ideas about human thought and behaviour linger, giving rise to misconceptions about how our brains work.

由于这门学科仍处于发展初期，许多关于人类思维和行为的早期观念依然挥之不去，从而引发了关于大脑如何运作的诸多误解。

everything but the kitchen sink 倾其所有，用尽一切办法

Basically, we threw everything but the kitchen sink at these rocks.

基本上，我们动用了所有可能的手段来研究这些岩石。

top up 补充，加满

“Ketones are there to top up glucose levels,” says Prof Kieran Clarke, a biochemist at the University of Oxford.

“酮体的作用在于补充葡萄糖水平，”牛津大学生物化学教授基兰·克拉克说道。

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来源：歆瑶教育