Do crossword puzzles make people smarter?

纵横填字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的纵12行。

This crossword puzzle is next to impossible.

【next to】这个纵横字几乎不可能做出来。

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.

训练方法可以是玩纵横字游戏、下象棋或者学习一门新语言！现在，我要问你一个问题尼尔。

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首新歌，解决一个问题，完成纵横字，创建网站图形，规划你的旅行预算，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，然后玩一下纵横字游戏，或者再背一份购物清，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.

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