Lesson 46 Hobbies-英语听力

[00:01.49]Lesson 46
第46课 [00:03.64]Hobbies
业余爱好 [00:11.46]Who, according to the author, are 'Fortune's favoured children'?
作者认为，谁是命运女神的宠儿？ [00:18.88]A gifted American psychologist has said, 'Worry is a spasm of the emotion;
一位天才的美国心理学家曾今说过：“烦恼是感情的发作， [00:25.30]the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go.'
此时脑子纠缠住了某种东西又不肯松手。‘’ [00:29.99]It is useless to argue with the mind in this condition.
在这种情况下，你和头脑争吵是无济于事的。 [00:33.61]The stronger the will, the more futile the task.
这种意志越是强烈，这种尝试越是徒劳。 [00:37.48]One can only gently insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp.
你只能缓和而巧妙地让另一种东西进入痉挛僵持的头脑中。 [00:43.08]And if this something else is rightly chosen, if it is really attended by the illumination of another field of interest,
如果选得合适，而且的确受到别的领域的情趣的启迪， [00:50.92]gradually, and often quite swiftly, the old undue grip relaxes and the process of recuperation and repair begins.
那么渐渐地，往往也是很顺利地，原先的过度紧张就会松弛下来，恢复和修整的过程就会开始。 [01:00.61]The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of the first importance to a public man.
因此，对一个从事社会活动的人来说，培养一种业余爱好和各种新的兴趣是头等重要的做法。 [01:08.94]But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will.
但这并非一日之功，也不是单凭意志一蹴而就的事。 [01:17.23]The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process.
精神上多种情趣的培养是一个长期的过程。 [01:22.48]The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground;
你必须从精良选种做起，然后将其植入肥沃的土地， [01:28.38]they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.
还需对其精心护理，才能在需要的时候随手摘取充满生机的果实。 [01:36.19]To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
一个人想要真正感到幸福和平安，至少应该有两三种爱好，而且都比较实际。 [01:44.69]It is no use starting late in life to say: 'I will take an interest in this or that.'
到了晚年才开始说：“我会对这个或那个发生兴趣”，已经没有用了。 [01:50.70]Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort.
这种愿望只会加剧精神紧张。 [01:55.42]A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet get hardly any benefit or relief.
一个人可能会获得与其日常工作无关的某些课题的渊博知识，而没有从中获得什么实益或宽慰。 [02:04.33]It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
干你喜欢的事情是没有用的，你得喜欢你所干的事情。 [02:10.11]Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes:
泛泛地说，人可以分为三类： [02:15.42]those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
劳累至死的人，忧郁至死的人，无聊至死的人。 [02:23.04]It is no use offering the manual labourer,
对于流汗出力干了一周苦活的体力劳动者来说，（整句调整顺序翻译） [02:25.86]tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon.
让他们在星期六下午再踢足球或打垒球是不合适的。 [02:34.17]It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man,
同样，对于为严肃的公务操劳或烦恼了六天的政界人士、专业技术人员、商人来说， [02:39.02]who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days,
（整句调整顺序翻译） [02:43.16]to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.
在周末再让他们为琐事而动脑子和忧虑也是无益的。 [02:48.19]As for the unfortunate people who can command everything they want,
对于那些能够任意支配一切的“可怜的人”， [02:52.61]who can gratify every caprice and lay their hands on almost every object of desire--
他们能够恣意妄为，能着手任何他们想做的事。 [02:58.87]for them a new pleasure a new excitement is only an additional satiation.
对这种人来说，多一种新的乐趣、多一种新的刺激只是增加一份厌腻而已。 [03:04.94]In vain they rush frantically round from place to place,
他们到处狂乱奔跑， [03:08.86]trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion.
企图以闲聊和乱窜来摆脱无聊对他们的报复，但这是徒劳的。 [03:14.10]For them discipline in one form or another is the most hopeful path.
对他们来说，用某种形式的纪律约束他们一下才能有希望使他们走上正道。 [03:19.88]It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes:
也可以这样说，理智的、勤劳的、有用的人可以分为两类： [03:27.63]first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure;
第一类是分清工作是工作，娱乐是娱乐的人； [03:34.23]and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one.
第二类人工作和娱乐是一回事。 [03:39.69]Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations.
这两类人中，第一类人是大多数，他们能够得到补偿。 [03:45.92]The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward,
在办公室或工厂里长时间的工作给他们带来了酬劳， [03:50.82]not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms.
这不仅是谋生的手段，而且还带来了寻找乐趣的强烈欲望，哪怕是最简单的、最低等的乐趣。 [03:59.18]But Fortune's favoured children belong to the second class.
但是命运之神的宠儿是第二类人。 [04:04.20]Their life is a natural harmony.
他们的生活是一种自然的和谐。 [04:07.19]For them the working hours are never long enough.
对他们来说，工作时间总不会过长。 [04:11.28]Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays, when they come,
每天都是假日，而通常的假期到来时， [04:15.71]are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
他们却惋惜这假期强制打断了他们埋头从事的工作。 [04:21.16]Yet to both classes, the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere of a diversion of effort, is essential.
然而对这两种人来说，都需要换一换脑子，改变一下气氛，转移一下注意力，这是不可缺少的。 [04:30.87]Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure
说实在的，那些把工作当作享受的人， [04:35.26]are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
可能最需要每隔一段时间把工作从头脑中撇开。