A Japanese scientist has won the spoof¹ Ig Nobel medicine prize for a study that revealed kissing could reduce allergic² reactions in humans.

一名日本科学家研究发现，接吻可以缓解人体的过敏反应，这项研究让他赢得了搞笑诺贝尔医学奖。

“I wish that people will understand the new effect of kissing and I also hope that kissing will bring not only love but also attenuation³ of allergic reaction,” Hajime Kimata, who could not attend last week’s 25th annual event, said in a videotaped acceptance speech.

“我希望人们能了解接吻的新作用，我也希望接吻不仅能带来爱情，也能够弱化过敏反应。”木全肇没能出席上周的25周年颁奖礼，他通过视频发表了获奖感言。

“I am honoured to be awarded the Ig Nobel Prize and I appreciate it very much.”

“我非常荣幸能获得搞笑诺贝尔奖，非常感谢。”

Kimata received the prize jointly⁴ with three Slovakian scientists who also studied the “medical effects of kissing.” The Slovakian group looked at how long male DNA⁵ stays in a woman’s mouth after “intense kissing.”

木全肇和三位斯洛伐克科学家共同赢得了这一奖项，他们也研究了“接吻的医学作用”。这三位科学家关注的是“激吻”之后，男性的DNA会在女性嘴里停留多久。

After the medical award was announced, some couples in the audience, prompted by the master of ceremonies, responded by embracing and kissing each other.

医学奖宣布之后，观众席上一些情侣受主持人的鼓动，相拥亲吻。

The award ceremony - which the science humour magazine “Annals of Improbable Research” gives in 10 categories as a parody⁶ of the Nobel Prizes - was held at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. It was the ninth straight year for an Ig Nobel prize to go to Japanese recipients⁷.

颁奖仪式在哈佛大学桑德斯剧院举行，主办方科学幽默杂志《不可思议研究年报》颁发了10个滑稽的诺贝尔奖项，这是日本人连续第九年获得搞笑诺贝尔奖。

Kimata, who runs an allergy⁸ clinic in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, said: “Using the natural healing powers that humans have, I have been working towards alleviating⁹ allergic reactions in people.”

木全肇在大阪的寝屋川市经营一家过敏诊所，他说：“我一直在研究人类拥有的天然康复能力，为缓解人体的过敏反应而努力。”

Among other winners were scientists from the US and Australia for creating a way to “partially¹⁰ un-boil an egg” and a group of researchers at a Dutch linguistics¹¹ institute for revealing the universality of the word “huh.”

在其他获奖者中，来自美国和澳大利亚的科学家创造了一种方法将熟鸡蛋“部分”变成生鸡蛋。荷兰一所语言学研究院的研究团队发现，世界语言中普遍存在huh这个词。

Last year, four Japanese researchers won the physics prize for their work measuring the friction¹² that occurs when someone steps on a banana peel.

去年，四名日本研究人员测量了人踩到香蕉皮后的摩擦力，获得了物理学奖。