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第1段
A gifted American psychologist has said, "Worry is a spasm of the emotion; the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go." It is useless to argue with the mind in this condition. The stronger the will, the more futile the task. One can only gently insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp. And if this something else is rightly chosen, if it really attended by the illumination of another field of interest, gradually, and often quite swiftly, the old undue grip relaxes and the process of recuperation and repair begins.
美国一位天才心理学家曾说：“烦恼是感情的发作；大脑纠缠于某种东西，无法松手。”在此之际，想以与大脑争吵之法来松手，是无济于事的。越想摆脱，越是徒劳。人们唯有平缓地让别的想法潜入已握紧某种东西的无法控制的大脑之中。如果别的想法选得合适，而且该想法的确受其它领域兴趣的启迪而逐渐且顺利地得到了注意，原先不适当的紧张随即得以放松，恢复和修整的过程亦得以开展。
第2段
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of the first importance to a public man. But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process. 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 hand when needed.
对于公众人物来说，培养一门爱好和各种形式的兴趣，因此就是最为重要的策略。 但这并非一天就可完成的事情，也不是单凭意志能够速成的。培养各种精神方面的兴趣是一个长期的过程。 要想在需要时随手摘下生机勃勃的果实，离不开精心选种，种植沃土，和勤勉看护。
第3段
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: "I will take an interest in this or that." Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet get hardly any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. 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. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. 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, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.
要想真正幸福和安康，人们至少应有两三种爱好，而且必须都是真正投入的爱好。到了人生的暮年才开始说：“我会对这个或那个产生兴趣”，已经没用了。 这一尝试徒增心力紧张而已。一个人可能会具备跟他日常工作毫无关系的领域的渊博知识，却无法从中得到些收益或宽慰。（可见）做你喜欢的事并没有什么用；你得喜欢你所做的事。不严谨地说，人们大体可分为三类：一类，劳累至死的人；二类，忧虑至死的人；三类，无聊至死的人。对于流汗劳力了一周的人来说，让他们在星期六下午踢足球或打垒球，这种爱好无法起到效果；同样，对于为严肃的公务劳心担忧了6天的政治人士，或者专业人士和商人来说，在周末让他们为琐事而劳心也没用。
第4段
As for the unfortunate people who can command everything they want, 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. In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion. For them discipline in one form or another is the most hopeful path.
至于（第三类无聊的）可怜人，他们可以任意要求他们想要的一切，能满足所有的任性，能染指任何渴望的目标 ——对他们来说，一种新的乐趣或新的刺激只是更增厌腻而已。他们徒劳地四处疯跑，企图仅以喧嚣和乱窜来摆脱报复性的无聊。对他们来说，用某种形式的纪律予以约束，才是最有希望（逃离无聊）的途径。
第5段
It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. 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. But Fortune's favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays, when they come, are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes, the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. 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.
也可以这样说，理智的、勤劳的、有用的人可以分为两类：第一类，他们工作是工作，娱乐是娱乐；第二类，他们工作就是娱乐。这两类人当中，第一类人是大多数， 他们会有补偿。在办公室或工厂里长时间的工作所带来的回报，不仅是谋生的手段，还是寻找乐趣的强烈欲望，哪怕是最简单、最简朴的乐趣。但是，命运眷顾的孩子们则是第二类人。他们的生活是一种自然的和谐。对他们来说，工作时间似乎永远不够长， 每一天都是假日，而到了真正的假日，沉浸其中的工作被强行打断，他们便心生怨恨。 然而对这两种人来说，都确切需要换一换观念，调整下环境，分散些精力。说实话，第二类工作就是娱乐的人可能很需要每隔一段时间就把工作从头脑中驱除干净。
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