Do crossword puzzles make people smarter?

纵横填字谜会让人变得更聪明吗？

That was Wil-- he's feeling a lot better. Apparently, he's 12-down in the TV Guide crossword puzzle.

那是威尔，他现在感觉好多了，很显然，他玩到电视指南纵横字谜的纵12。

First of all, this is a crossword puzzle.

, 这是一个纵横字谜。

This crossword puzzle is next to impossible.

【next to】这个纵横字谜几乎不可能做出来。

And ways to train your brain might be doing a crossword puzzle, playing chess, or studying a new language! Now I have a question for you, Neil.

训方法可以是玩纵横字谜游戏、下象棋或者学习一门新语言！现在，我要你一个尔。

Elaine Higgleton, a representative of Collins Cobuild dictionaries, explained that thousands of crossword and Scrabble fans read dictionaries for fun and to improve their game.

《柯林斯高阶英语学习词典》的代理商伊莱恩·希格登解释说很多纵横字谜和拼字游戏的爱好者都以读字典提高自己玩游戏的水平为乐。

For example, it might be working out a new song on the piano, solving a problem, completing a crossword puzzle, creating website graphics, planning your travel budget, painting.

例如，可能是在钢琴上写一新歌，解决一个，完成纵横字谜，创建网站图形，规划你的旅预算，绘画。

Hmm. I think I might just lie down after the show with a box of chocolates and today's crossword… or maybe I'll memorize another shopping list… this time in Japanese.

嗯。我想做完节目之后我要躺下吃一盒巧克力，然后玩一下纵横字谜游戏，或者再背一份购物清单，这次背日语的。

He got into construction and then the insurance industry, but he'd always liked to write and do crossword puzzles. " And I loved to read. A lot, " he said.

他进到了建筑业，然后是保险业，但是他总是喜欢写作和玩纵横字谜游戏。他说：“我也很爱阅读。”