激情晨读英语美文50篇第九章46：培养一种业余爱好（Mp3）

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[00:05.76]Cultivating a Hobby 	培养一种业余爱好
[00:09.14]The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first importance to a public man .	对一个公众人物来说，培养一种业余爱好、一种新的兴趣显得尤为重要。
[00:15.72]But this is not a business that can be untaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will.	但这不是一件一朝一日或凭一时的意气就能一蹴而就的事情。
[00:22.21]The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process.	这种替代忧虑的心理兴趣培养是一个长期的过程。
[00:25.67]The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at band when needed.	它的种子必须要精挑细选，然后播撒到肥沃的土壤中，要想得到籽粒饱满、需要时随手可摘的果实，还必须对他们精心呵护。
[00:35.88]To be really happy really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.	要想真正的快乐，而且每次都能真正奏效，一个人必须有两种或三种业余爱好，而且必须是真正的业余爱好。
[00:43.68]It is no use starting late in life to say: "I will take an interest in this or that." 	一个人到了晚年才说：“我要培养这种或那种兴趣。”那已经没有任何意义了。
[00:48.98]Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort.	这种尝试只能更加增加大脑的压力。
[00:52.50]A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief.	一个人可能具有与他日常工作无关的大量的知识，但这些知识并无助于他减轻心理压力。
[00:59.70]It is no use dong what you like; you have got to like what you do.	随心所欲的做你喜欢的工作不会帮你减轻心理压力，而是你必须设法喜欢你目前所做的工作。
[01:03.82]Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes; those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.	大致来说，人可分为三类：第一类人是累死；第二类人是愁死；第三类人是烦死。
[01:14.50]It is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon.	体力劳动者经过一周的辛勤劳动已经筋疲力尽，再让他们在周六下午踢足球或打棒球无助于消除他们的疲劳。
[01:23.44]It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or businessman, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the week-end.	让那些为一些大事已经连续工作或烦恼了六天的政治家、专业人员或工商界人士来说，在周末的时候让他们为一些鸡毛蒜皮的小事烦恼费神，也不会使他们身心轻松。
[01:34.90]It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are dividing into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one.	也可以说，理智、勤奋、有才能的人可以分为两类：第一类是工作与娱乐泾渭分明；第二类人是工作与娱乐合二为一。
[01:49.40]Of these the former is majority.	大多数人属于前者。
[01:51.42]They have their compensations.	他们有他们的报酬。
[01:53.20]The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms.	长时间在办公室或工厂的辛勤劳作不仅使他们得到了维持生命的薪水，而且培养了他们追求快乐的强烈愿望，即使仅仅是那些最简单、最朴实的形式。
[02:05.30]But Fortune's favored children belong to the second class.	然而命运女神所偏爱的却是第二类人。
[02:08.61]Their life is a natural harmony.	他们的生活自然、和谐。
[02:11.30]For them the working hours are never long enough.	对他们来说，工作的实践永远都不够长。
[02:13.79]Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.	每一天都是假期，法定假期到来时，他们不愿休假，认为这是强行终端干扰了他们精彩的假期。
[02:23.60]Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential.	然而，这两类人都必须改变一下他们的观点，调整一下气氛、转移一下奋斗的方向。
[02:31.52]Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.	事实上或许那些以工作为了的人正是那些最需要通过一种兴趣或爱好使自己适时忘记自己工作的人。

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激情晨读英语美文50篇第九章46：培养一种业余爱好（Mp3）