英語美文：CultivatingaHobby培養(yǎng)業(yè)余愛好

1、英語美文： Cultivating a Hobby 培養(yǎng)業(yè)余愛好Cultivating a Hobby-Winston ChurchillA gifted American psychologist has said , “Worry is aspasm of the emotion; the mind catches hold of something andwill not let it go. ” It is useless to argue with the mind inthis condition. The stronger the will, the more futile th

2、etask. One can only gently insinuate something else into itsconvulsive grasp. And if this something else is rightlychosen, if it is really attended by the illumination ofanother field of interest, gradually, and often swiftly, theold undue grip relaxes and the process of recuperation andrepair ,begi

3、ns.培養(yǎng)業(yè)余愛好- 溫氏頓 丘吉爾一位極具天賦的心理學(xué)家以前說過，“擔(dān)憂是一種情感的突發(fā)；心里死死地糾纏著一件事，總是放不開?！痹谶@種情況下，心理的斗爭是徒勞無功的。心里越是掙扎，越是放不開。有用的就是巧妙地利用別的事情，分散注意力。而且，如果這個(gè)別的事情選對了，并切實(shí)伴隨著另一個(gè)興趣領(lǐng)域的啟發(fā)，逐漸地，通常也是非常快速地，這種擔(dān)憂的情緒將會(huì)得到放松，平和的心情也就開始得到恢復(fù)。The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest istherefore a policy of first importance to a public ma

4、n. Butthis is not a business that can be undertaken in a day orswiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. The growthof alternative mental interests is a long process. The seedsmust be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; theymust be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are t

5、o beat hand when needed.所以，對于一位公眾人物來說，愛好的培養(yǎng)和興趣的形成是首要的策略。但是，這不是一天內(nèi)就能完成的事情，也不是一想做就能夠做成的事情。新興趣的培養(yǎng)是一個(gè)漫長的過程。這就好比，如果你想在需要的時(shí)候就能摘到新鮮誘人的水果，你就必須嚴(yán)格挑選優(yōu)質(zhì)的種子，種在肥沃的土壤，并加以精心的照料。To be really happy and really safe, one ought to haveat least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. Itis no use starting late in

6、 life to say ： I will take aninterest in this or that. Such an attempt only aggravatesthe strain of mental effort. A man may acquire greatknowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yethardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what youlike ： you have got to like what you do.

7、Broadly speaking,human beings may be divided into three classes ： those whoare toiled to death, those who are worried to death, andthose who are bored to death. It is no use offering themanual labourer, tired out with a hard weeks sweat andeffort ，the chance of playing a game of football or baseball

8、on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politicianor the professional or businessman, who has been working orworrying about serious things for six days, to work or worryabout trifling things at the week-end.想要真正地感到愉快與安全，至少要有兩至三個(gè)切實(shí)可行的興趣。到了晚年的時(shí)候才說：“我將會(huì)對這個(gè)或那個(gè)產(chǎn)生興趣”是沒用的。這樣的一個(gè)意圖只會(huì)讓心里頭的焦慮愈益嚴(yán)重。一個(gè)人也

9、許會(huì)獲取大量與其日常工作無關(guān)的各種知識(shí)，但仍然很難得到任何益處或者放松。做你喜歡做的事情也是無效的，你必須要喜歡上你所做的事情。從廣義上說，人可大致分為三類：勞累得要命的，擔(dān)憂得要命的，無聊得要命的。若是給那些工作了一個(gè)星期的，筋疲力竭的勞工們一個(gè)在周六下午踢足球或打棒球的機(jī)會(huì)是徒勞的。讓那些一周里有六天都在處理重要事情的政客，專家或商人們在周日去煩心那些瑣碎的事情也等于在做無用功。As for the unfortunate people who can commandeverything they want, who can gratify every caprice and laythe

10、ir hands on almost every object of desire for them anew pleasure, a new excitement is only an additionalsatiation. In vain they rush frantically round from place toplace, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatterand motion. For them discipline in one form or another is themost hopeful p

11、ath.那些凡事能夠隨心所欲，垂手可得的，不幸的人，于其，一種新式的娛樂，興奮的事情也只不過是一分多余的飽足。他們瘋狂地到處亂竄，想借此逃避那揮之不去的厭倦感，結(jié)果僅僅白費(fèi)心思。這種或那種形式的規(guī)則才是真正能讓他們釋放的途徑。It may also be said that rational, industrious, usefulhuman beings are divided intotwo classes ： first, those whosework is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly ，those whose w

12、ork and pleasure arc one. Of these the formerare the majority. They have their compensations. The longhours in the office or the factory bring with them as theirreward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetitefor pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. ButFortunes favored c

13、hildren belong to the second class. Theirlife is a natural harmony. For them the working hours arenever long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinaryholidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptionsin an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of analternative outlook, of a c

14、hange of atmosphere, of adiversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well bethat those whose work is their pleasure are those who mostneed the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.也能夠這么說，那些理智的，勤奮的有用之人可分為兩大類：一，那些工作歸工作，娛樂歸娛樂的人；二，那些寓工作于娛樂的人。這些人當(dāng)中，前者是占絕大部分的。他們自有他們的薪酬。在辦公室或工廠里長時(shí)間的工作給他們