新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第58课：Painting as a Pastime
Lesson 58 Painting as a Pastime 绘画消遣
新加坡国立大学专业 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 uless to argue with the mind in this condition. The stronger the will, the more futile the task. One can only gently insinuate something el into its convulsive grasp. And if this something el is rightly chon, if it is 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.
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first importance to a public man. But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvid by a mere command of the will. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process. The eds must be carefully chon; they must fall on good ground; they must be dulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.ccme
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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. It is no u 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 hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no u doing what you like, you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three class： tho who are toiled to death, tho who are worried to death, and tho who are bored to death. It is no u offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baball on Saturday afternoon. It is no u inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about rious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the week-end.
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.
It may also be said that rational, industrious, uful human beings are divided into two class： first, tho who work is work and who pleasure is pleasure; and condly, tho who work and pleasure are one. Of the 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 cond 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 class the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is esntial. Indeed, it may well be that tho who work is their pleasure are tho who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
psychologist n. 心理学家
gifted adj. 有天才的
spasm n. 一阵（感情）发作
catch hold of 抓住
futile adj. 无用的
insinuatevt. 使潜入，暗示
shrinks convulsive adj. 起痉挛的
illumination n. 启发，照明
undue adj. 不适合的
grip n. 紧张
improvi vt. 临时作成
dulously adv.孜孜不倦地
tend vt.照管
aggravate vt加剧.
供应英文
报价技巧技巧英文 broadly speaking 大体上说
toil vt.劳累
trifling adj.微小的
gratify vt.使满意
caprice n.任性
satiation n.满足
in vain徒劳
frantically adv.狂乱地
avenge vt.替…报复
boredom n.厌烦
clutter n.喧闹的谈话
sustenance n.生计
keen adj.强烈的
appetite n.欲望
favoured adj.受到偏爱的
grudge vt.怨恨
absorbing adj.引人入胜的
banish vt.排除，放弃
pastime n. 消遣
单词解析：
1. psychologist n. 心理学家
[联想] psychology n.心理学
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釜山英文 psywar 心理战栀子花开英文版
psychoanalysis 心理分析
2.gifted adj. 有天才的eg. He is gifted. 他很有天赋。
[联想] 表示聪明、有天赋的词还有：
talented adj.天才的； adroit adj. 灵巧的，敏捷的；
genius n. 天才； brilliant adj.有才气的，聪明的；
