The ice cream headache, often called a "brain freeze", is actually referred pain from the roof of the mouth which you feel coming from the temple area of your forehead when you suck cold beverages² through a straw, sucking the liquid directly onto the palate. The drink doesn't get chance to warm up before it hits the roof of your mouth.

 

冰激凌头疼，有时也叫“脑冻结”，指用吸管喝冷饮的时候，冷饮直接到达上颚时感觉到的来自太阳穴的疼痛感。冷饮在到达上颚之前没有足够的时间升温。

 

There were simple ways of avoiding the problem in the first place when ordering your ice cold beverage¹.

 

在点冰冻饮料的时候其实有简单的办法可以避免这样的问题。

 

The simplest way when you are drinking through a straw is not to angle³ the straw in the direction of your palette.

 

最简单的办法就是喝冷饮时吸管不要直接对着上颚。

 

Those who remember their manners and eat their ice creams slowly are much less likely to have a problem.

 

时刻注意言行、吃冰激凌也慢慢来的人也不太会遇到这个问题。