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It may sound surprising, but people who are supersensitive to coffee's bitter taste actually drink more of it, a new study finds.

这听起来也许令人惊讶，但一项新研究发现，对咖啡苦味超级敏感的人实际上喝得更多。

This sensitivity isn't __26__ a matter of taste, either, but rather is influenced by a person's genetic makeup, the researchers said in the study.

研究人员在研究中表示，这种敏感性也并不仅仅是味觉问题，而是受到一个人基因构成的影响。

"You'd expect that people who are particularly sensitive to the bitter taste of caffeine would drink less coffee," said study senior researcher Marilyn Cornelis. "The __27__ results of our study suggest coffee consumers acquire a taste for or an ability to detect the bitterness of caffeine due to the learned positive __28__ brought out by caffeine."

"你会以为对咖啡因苦味特别敏感的人会少喝咖啡，"研究资深研究员 Marilyn Cornelis 说。"我们研究得出的相反结果表明，咖啡消费者之所以喜欢上或能够辨别咖啡因的苦味，是由于咖啡因带来的一种后天习得的正向强化。"

Put another way, people who have a __29__ ability to taste the bitterness of coffee learn to associate "good things with it," Cornelis said. This finding is surprising, given that bitterness often serves as a warning mechanism to __30__ people to spit out harmful substances, scientists said.

换句话说，那些对咖啡苦味具有更强辨别能力的人，学会了把"好事"与它联系在一起，Cornelis 说。科学家表示，这一发现令人惊讶，因为苦味往往充当一种警示机制，促使人们把有害物质吐出来。

Researchers conducted the study to understand how genetics influences people's __31__ of tea, coffee and alcohol which tend to taste bitter, said lead study researcher Jue Sheng Ong.

首席研究员 Jue Sheng Ong 说，研究人员开展这项研究，是为了了解基因如何影响人们对茶、咖啡和酒精这些往往带有苦味饮品的摄取。

"While all bitter flavors may seem the same, we __32__ the bitterness of Brussels sprouts (抱子甘蓝), quinine (奎宁) and caffeine __33__," Ong told Live Science. "The degree to which we find these flavors bitter is, in part, determined by your genes."

"虽然所有苦味似乎都一样，但我们其实是分别感知抱子甘蓝、奎宁和咖啡因的苦味的，"Ong 告诉《生活科学》。"我们觉得这些味道有多苦，部分是由你的基因决定的。"

People with the genes to taste the bitterness of green vegetables are more likely to prefer tea to coffee. In __34__, people who were more sensitive to quinine's bitter flavors and those found in green vegetables tended to __35__ coffee.

拥有能尝出绿色蔬菜苦味基因的人更可能偏爱茶而非咖啡。此外，对奎宁苦味以及绿色蔬菜苦味更敏感的人，往往会回避咖啡。