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A gifted American psychologist has said, 'Worry is a spasm of the emotion;

一位才华出众的美国心理学家说过：“忧虑是感情的一种痉挛；

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the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go.'

思想一旦抓住了某件事就不会松手。”

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It is useless to argue with the mind in this condition.

在这种情况下，跟思想进行争辩是无济于事的。

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The stronger the will, the more futile the task.

意志越坚强，任务就越徒劳。

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One can only gently insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp.

人只能轻轻地向其痉挛的掌控中渗入其他东西。

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And if this something else is rightly chosen, if it is really attended by the illumination of another field of interest,

如果这种“其他东西”选择得当，如果它确实伴随着另一个兴趣领域的启迪，

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gradually, and often quite swiftly, the old undue grip relaxes and the process of recuperation and repair begins.

那么，旧有的不当掌控就会逐渐（而且往往是相当迅速地）放松，恢复和修复的过程就会开始。

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The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of the first importance to a public man.

因此，培养爱好和新的兴趣形式对公众人物来说是首要的策略。

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But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will.

但这不是一天就能完成的，也不是单凭意志命令就能迅速凑成的。

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The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process.

培养替代性精神兴趣是一个漫长的过程。

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The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground;

种子必须精心挑选；它们必须落在好土壤里；

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they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.

它们必须勤勉照料，才能在需要时结出充满生机的果实。

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To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

要真正快乐和真正安全，一个人至少应该有两三个爱好，而且它们都必须是真实的。

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It is no use starting late in life to say: 'I will take an interest in this or that.'

在晚年才开始说：“我会对这个或那个感兴趣。”是没用的。

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Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort.

这种尝试只会加剧精神努力的负担。

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A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet get hardly any benefit or relief.

一个人可能对与日常工作无关的话题获得渊博的知识，但却几乎得不到任何益处或解脱。

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It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

做你喜欢的事情是没有用的；你必须喜欢你所做的事情。

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Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes:

广义上说，人类可以分为三类：

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those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

那些劳累致死的人，那些忧虑致死的人，以及那些无聊致死的人。

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It is no use offering the manual labourer,

向体力劳动者提供，

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tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon.

一个星期辛苦劳作、筋疲力尽的人，在周六下午打一场足球或棒球比赛的机会是没有用的。

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It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days,

邀请一个已经工作或为严肃的事情担忧了六天的政治家、专业人士或商人，

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to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.

在周末去为琐碎的事情工作或担忧是没有用的。

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As for the unfortunate people who can command everything they want,

至于那些能得到他们想要的一切的不幸之人，

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who can gratify every caprice and lay their hands on almost every object of desire--for them a new pleasure a new excitement is only an additional satiation.

那些能满足每一个任性要求，几乎能得到所有渴望之物的人——对他们来说，新的快乐，新的兴奋只是一种额外的满足。

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In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion.

他们徒劳地从一个地方狂奔到另一个地方，试图通过喧哗和移动来逃避复仇般的无聊。

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For them discipline in one form or another is the most hopeful path.

对他们来说，某种形式的纪律才是最有希望的道路。

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It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes:

也可以说，理智、勤劳、有用的人类分为两类：

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first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure;

第一类，工作是工作，娱乐是娱乐；

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and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one.

第二类，工作和娱乐合二为一。

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Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations.

其中，前者是大多数。他们有他们的补偿。

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The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward,

办公室或工厂里的长时间工作带给他们的回报，

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not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms.

不仅是维持生计的手段，而且是对即使是最简单、最朴素的乐趣的强烈渴望。

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But Fortune's favoured children belong to the second class.

但命运的宠儿属于第二类。

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Their life is a natural harmony.

他们的生活是自然的和谐。

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For them the working hours are never long enough.

对他们来说，工作时间永远不够长。

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Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays, when they come, are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

每天都是节日，而普通的假期，当它们到来时，却被视为对一个引人入胜的职业的强制性打断而感到不快。

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Yet to both classes, the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere of a diversion of effort, is essential.

然而，对这两类人来说，需要一种不同的视角，一种改变氛围，一种转移精力的需求是必不可少的。

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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，那些以工作为乐的人，可能最需要时时将工作从他们脑海中驱逐出去的手段。