As long as there has been alcohol, there have been hangovers - and yet there has been no cure. Though there's no lack of morning-after tips, we don't have a pill or drink that can instantly reduce those telltale symptoms of nausea and exhaustion.
只要碰了酒，就会宿醉--而且还无药可解。尽管不乏解宿醉的建议，但并不存在能立即缓解恶心和疲惫症状的药丸或口服剂。Journalist Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall set out to investigate why and the result is Hung Over: The Morning After and One Man's Quest for a Cure (out now from Penguin Random House). The Verge spoke to Bishop-Stall about the cultural history of hangovers, why your hangover is not the same as mine, and what's keeping us from that cure.
沙乌格内西·毕晓普-施塔尔（Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall）记者究其原因，一番研究后发现谜底是一本书--Hung Over: The Morning After and One Man's Quest for a Cure（企鹅兰登书屋目前没有本书）。The Verge杂志采访了毕晓普-施塔尔，了解了宿醉的文化历史、为什么人与人的宿醉状况不一样、为什么没有解药？This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. I assume that hangovers have been happening as long as we've had alcohol. What's the first cultural reference to a hangover?
值得一提的是，采访内容已略有改动。我想自打有了酒饮以来，宿醉就一直存在了。所以，宿醉的第一则文化故事是什么呢？
I think that depends on what your belief is in certain poems and certain books. The early Talmud tradition of Hebrew culture actually suggests that it was a bunch of grapes rather than an apple that cast Adam and Eve down into this earthly plane, so that could almost be seen as the first-ever hangover. Later, we have Noah actually making wine and becoming intoxicated from it.
我认为这取决于你对某些诗歌和某些书籍的看法。早期的希伯来犹太传统文化实际上表明：亚当和夏娃是因为吃了一串葡萄而非苹果才来到人世的，所以这几乎可以被视作第一次宿醉。后来，诺亚开始酿酒，并为酒沉迷。Even what we considered the first book in English literature, Beowulf, has all these warriors taken down because they got too drunk the night before battle. There are actually quite a few examples throughout history of wars being lost and empires even falling because of ill-timed drinking of courage the night before.
在英国文学最古老的一本书《贝奥武夫》中，战士们因为大战前一晚喝得太多而战败。事实上，历史上有很多这样的例子：前一天晚上不合时宜的饮酒带来的是战争失败、帝国沦陷的结局。
What about the term "hangover"? How recent is it?
"宿醉"一词是怎么来的，什么时候出现的？It's an extremely recent term for a malady that's older than language. The word "hangover" doesn't appear in writing further back than around 1902, in a book called The Absurd Dictionary. After that, it's hard to find another reference to the term until about 20 years later, right between the World Wars. Today, you see it becoming a really popular part of the lexicon, so much now that it's used in languages all around the world.
这是一个新出现的词语，来源于歌词（与语言出现的更早）。"宿醉"一词最早出现于1902年一本名为《荒诞字典》（The Absurd Dictionary）的书中。在此之后的20年，鲜少有见。但世界大战期间，人们又能看到这样的字眼。现而今，它是一个很受欢迎的词语，几乎全世界都在使用。