Name: 馬匹如何療癒人類？ ⏲️ 6分鐘學英文 (How are horses helping to heal humans? ⏲️ 6 Minute English)
Uploaded: 2025-12-12T17:07:43.000Z
Duration: 6 min 13 s

Six Minute English from BBCLearningEnglish.com hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.

BBC Learning English 的 Six Minute English，大家好，這裡是 BBC Learning English 的 Six Minute English。

My favourite thing was to ride a horse through the countryside.

The relationship between humans and horses has been close throughout history, but

人與馬的關係自古以來就非常密切，但

recently this has gone beyond riding horses for fun or using them for work.

最近這已經不只是單純騎馬或利用牠們工作了。

Equine assisted Services, sometimes called horse therapy, is a health trend where caring and interacting with horses is used to heal physical and mental illness.

馬匹輔助服務，有時也稱為馬匹治療，是一種利用照顧和與馬互動來療癒身心疾病的健康趨勢。

Here's Dachyani Navaniyaga, presenter of BBC World Service program the Conversation to explain Equine assisted services is now an umbrella term which encompasses a whole range of treatments involving activities and interactions with horses to promote better human well being.

BBC World Service 節目 The Conversation 的主持人 Dachyani Navaniyaga 將為我們解釋，馬匹輔助服務現在是一個總稱，涵蓋了各種涉及與馬匹互動和活動，以促進人類身心健康的療程。

Equine assisted services is an umbrella term, a term for a large number of different things which all belong to a single common category.

馬匹輔助服務是一個總稱，指的是許多屬於同一類別的不同事物。

So horse therapy includes many activities from feeling the horse's movement, which can help children with muscle disorders like cerebral palsy, to.

所以馬匹治療包含許多活動，從感受馬匹的律動，這能幫助肌肉障礙的孩子，例如腦性麻痺，到。

To simply grooming the horse, which can help calm anxiety.

到單純地梳理馬匹，這能幫助舒緩焦慮。

Grooming a horse means cleaning and brushing the horse's coat of hair.

梳理馬匹是指清潔和刷拭馬匹的毛髮。

Various animals can be used in therapy, but

horses are particularly suitable as they're very sensitive to human emotions.

馬匹特別適合，因為牠們對人類的情緒非常敏感。

Being in contact with them affects the limbic area of the brain dealing with stress.

與牠們接觸會影響大腦處理壓力的邊緣系統。

In this episode, we'll hear more about the horses helping people work through mental, emotional and physical challenges.

在這集節目中，我們將聽到更多關於馬匹如何幫助人們克服心理、情緒和身體上的挑戰。

And as usual, we'll learn some useful new vocabulary.

還有，我們一如往常會學到一些實用的新單字。

And remember, you'll find all the words and phrases from this episode on our website, bbclearningenglish.com but now I have a question for you, Neil.

還有，請記得，本集的所有單字和片語都可以在我們的網站 bbclearningenglish.com 上找到，但現在有個問題想問你，Neil。

We've heard some of the special qualities horses possess, but

我們聽了馬匹擁有的一些特殊品質，但

which of the following about horses is also true?

關於馬匹，下列哪項也是真的？

Is it A, horses always sleep standing up, B, horses can make over 100 sounds?

是 A，馬匹總是站著睡覺，B，馬匹可以發出超過 100 種聲音？

Or C, horses have almost 360 degree vision?

或是 C，馬匹幾乎有 360 度的視野？

Well, I'm sure I've seen a horse lying down, so I don't know about its vision though.

嗯，我確定我看過馬躺下來，所以我不確定牠們的視野。

So I'm going to say B, a horse can make over 100 sounds.

所以我選 B，馬匹可以發出超過 100 種聲音。

Okay, well, we'll find out the answer later in the program.

好的，我們稍後會在節目中揭曉答案。

Horse therapist Claudia Nicholson first felt the healing power of horses as a child.

馬匹治療師 Claudia Nicholson 小時候就感受到了馬匹的療癒力量。

She now runs her own centre for Equine Assisted Learning in the south of England, which is where she spoke with BBC World Service Programme the Conversation I would spend hours on end sitting in a stable with my pony.

她現在在英格蘭南部經營自己的馬匹輔助學習中心，在那裡她接受了 BBC World Service 節目 The Conversation 的訪問。我會花好幾個小時待在馬廄裡跟我的小馬在一起。

I was going through puberty, my parents had separated.

那時候我正值青春期，我的父母分居了。

I had a lot of unanswered questions and I would feel met and safe and held with the connection of the pony.

我有很多未解的問題，透過與小馬的連結，我感到被理解、安全且被支持。

As a child, Claudia spent hours on end with her pony.

小時候，Claudia 花了好幾個小時跟她的寶貝小馬在一起。

Phrases like days or hours on end mean days or hours doing something continuously without stopping.

「好幾個小時」這類說法，意思就是連續不斷地做某件事好幾個小時。

Spending time with her pony helped Claudia through puberty, the stage of life when a child grows into an adult because of changes in their body which allow them to have children.

花時間跟小馬相處，幫助 Claudia 度過了青春期，也就是身體發生變化、孩子長大成為成人，並能生育的階段。

It was her teenage experiences that led Claudia to start her own horse therapy centre.

正是她青少年時期的經歷，讓 Claudia 決定創辦自己的馬匹治療中心。

She works a lot with teenage girls and children in care.

她主要跟少女和受照顧的孩子們合作。

A child in care is a child who's being looked after by the local authorities because they cannot be cared for by their parents or family.

受照顧的孩子是指因為無法由父母或家人照顧，而由地方當局代為撫養的孩子。

Here, Claudia talks more about her work with children and horses to BBC World Services.

在這裡，Claudia 透過 BBC World Service 的節目，分享更多她與孩子及馬匹合作的經驗。

It would take maybe a few sessions for a relationship of trust to be formed.

可能需要幾次療程才能建立起信任關係。

And it's called quite extraordinary to see a child that's experienced a lot of trauma, especially these children in care.

看到一個經歷過許多創傷的孩子，尤其是這些受照顧的孩子，真的非常不尋常。

They might want to have a cry which they've been holding onto.

他們可能想哭出那些一直壓抑在心裡的情緒。

Many of the children Claudia works with suffer trauma.

克勞蒂亞合作的許多孩子都遭受過創傷。

It takes time for them to build a bond of trust with their horse.

他們需要時間才能和馬匹建立信任關係。

The phrase bond of trust is a strong feeling of reliance and confidence between two people.

信任關係這個詞，指的是兩個人之間強烈的依賴和信心。

They sense human feelings like fear or sadness through breath, heart rate and movement, and

牠們透過呼吸、心跳和動作感知人類的情緒，像是恐懼或悲傷，

This makes them perfect animal therapists.

這讓牠們成為完美的動物治療師。

All right, Georgie, let's find out the answer to your question.

好的，Georgie，我們來找出你問題的答案。

Well, I asked you which sentence about horses was true and you said that horses can make over 100 sounds.

嗯，我問你哪句關於馬的敘述是真的，你說是馬可以發出一百多種聲音。

The correct answer was C. Horses have near 360 degree vision, which is surprising.

正確答案是 C。馬的視野接近三百六十度，這很令人驚訝。

OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned, starting with umbrella term, a term used to describe many different things which all belong to a single common category.

好了，我們來複習一下學過的詞彙，從「總稱」開始，也就是用來描述許多不同事物，但這些事物都屬於同一個共同類別的詞。

Grooming an animal like a horse or a dog means brushing and cleaning its coat of hair.

幫像馬或狗這樣的動物「Grooming」，意思是幫牠們梳理和清潔毛髮。

If you do something for hours on end, you do it continuously without stopping.

如果你「hours on end」地做某件事，就是指你持續不斷地做，中間不休息。

Puberty is the stage of life when a child grows into an adult because of changes in their body which allow them to have children.

「Puberty」是指一個人身體發生變化，從小孩長大成為能夠生育的成人的人生階段。

A child who is in care is being looked after by the local authorities because they cannot be cared for by their parents.

受到照顧的小孩，因為父母無法照顧，所以由當地政府機關負責照顧。

And finally, a bond of trust is a strong feeling of reliance and confidence between two people.

最後，「bond of trust」是指兩個人之間強烈的信賴和信心。

But remember, you'll find a quiz and worksheet for this episode over on our website, bbclearningenglish.com See you there soon.

但請記得，你可以在我們的網站 bbclearningenglish.com 上找到這個單元的測驗和練習題。到時候見。

來自 bbclearningenglish.com 的英語。