Beer goggles¹ are stunningly² real, and you should know how to avoid them.

啤酒眼竟然是真的，你得知道怎样避免出现这种情况。

Most alcohol research takes place in university labs, where participants get sloshed, and scientists then have them essentially³ play a game of Hot or Not, asking drinkers which faces they find attractive. This self-reported data yields precisely⁴ the inconsistent findings you would expect from questioning drunk people.

大多数酒精研究都是在高校实验室里进行的，参与者都喝醉了，然后科学家主要是让他们玩Hot or Not游戏，问喝醉的人他们觉得哪些面孔很迷人。这种自报数据的结果和你在询问醉酒的人时期望的答案不一样。

Now researchers from UK's Edge Hill University say they've found a better way. They went right to the source: bars (well, pubs) filled with intoxicated⁵ people.

现在英国边山大学的研究人员说发现了更好的方法，他们直奔源头：满是醉醺醺的人的酒吧。

The researchers found that while sober people are distracted by attractive faces, drunk people are distracted by, well, any face. To learn this, the researchers had drinkers complete a task while showing them attractive and unattractive faces and tracking their attention. (The "stimuli⁶" were photographs of forward-facing faces from a research database.) Key finding: Even very mildly intoxicated drinkers give their attentions to fugly faces. "This suggests that it doesn't take much for people to put on their beer goggles," says coauthor Derek Helm, a psychologist at Edge Hill University.

研究人员发现虽然清醒的人喜欢看好看的脸，但喝醉的人喜欢看所有脸。为了有所发现，研究人员让喝醉的人完成一项任务，同时给他们看好看的和不好看的脸，然后观察他们的注意力。（“刺激物”是研究数据库里的面部正面照片。）主要发现：甚至是醉得不是特别严重的人的注意力都会转移到不太好看的脸上。边山大学心理学家Derek Helm是这项研究的合著者，他说：“这表明人们不用喝太多就会有啤酒眼。”

Now we know: It's best to decide whether someone's cute before the alcohol starts flowing. Have fun out there this weekend.

现在我们知道了：最好在喝酒之前先看好某个人是否漂亮。祝你周末出去玩得开心。