SUSIE: So shall we plan what we have to do for this assignment?

苏西：那么我们要不要计划一下怎么完成这次作业呢？

LUKE: OK.

卢克：可以的。

SUSIE: First, we have to decide on our research question.

苏西：首先，我们需要确定研究问题。

So how about 'Is there a relationship between hours of sleep and number of dreams?'“

做梦数量和睡眠时间有关系吗？”这个怎么样？

LUKE: OK. Then we need to think about who we'll do the study on. About 12 people?

卢克：可以啊。然后我们需要考虑应该把谁当做研究对象。大约12个人？

SUSIE: Right. And shall we use other psychology students?

苏西：嗯。我们要用其他的心理学学生做研究对象吗吗？

LUKE: Let's use people from a different department. What about history?

卢克：选择其他院系的人吧？历史学院怎么样？

SUSIE: Yes, they might have interesting dreams! Or literature students?

苏西：可以的。他们也许做过有趣的梦！要不选文学院的学生呢？

LUKE: I don't really know any.

卢克：他们我真的不太熟。

SUSIE: OK, forget that idea.

苏西：好吧，别管这个了。

Then we have to think about our methodology.

接着我们得考虑一下方法论。

So we could use observation, but that doesn't seem appropriate.

我们可以用观察法，但是那个看起来并不合适。

LUKE: No. It needs to be self-reporting I think.

卢克：是的，我觉得它需要自我陈述。

And we could ask them to answer questions online.

我们还可以让他们在线上答题。

SUSIE: But in this case, paper might be better as they'll be doing it straight after they wake up … in fact while they're still half-asleep.

苏西：但是这次研究，在纸上答题可能会更好，因为他们可以在睡醒之后直接答题。事实上，他们答题的时候可能还是半梦半醒的呢。

LUKE: Right. And we'll have to check the ethical guidelines for this sort of research.

卢克：好的。然后我们要确认一下这类研究的道德准则。

SUSIE: Mm, because our experiment involves humans, so there are special regulations.

苏西：嗯，因为我们的实验涉及人类，所以有特别的规定。

LUKE: Yes, I had a look at those for another assignment I did.

卢克：是的，我在做另一个作业时看了一下。

There's a whole section on risk assessment, and another section on making sure they aren't put under any unnecessary stress.

有一整节是关于风险评估的，还有一节是关于确保他们不会承受任何不必要的压力。

SUSIE: Let's hope they don't have any bad dreams!

苏西：希望他们不要做恶梦！

LUKE: Yeah.

卢克：是的。

SUSIE: Then when we've collected all our data we have to analyse it and calculate the correlation between our two variables, that's time sleeping and number of dreams and then present our results visually in a graph.

苏西：然后，当我们收集了所有的数据，我们必须分析它，计算我们两个变量之间的相关性，即睡眠时间和梦的数量，然后用图表直观地呈现我们的结果。

LUKE: Right. And the final thing is to think about our research and evaluate it.

卢克：是的。最后一件事是考虑我们的研究并做出评价。

So that seems quite straightforward.

这样整个研究看起来非常清晰。

SUSIE: Yeah. So now let's …

苏西：是的，那么现在让我们… …