每日英语学习阅读材料(A4打印版) - 180516

有声双语美文：兴趣不一样的人怎么在一起？ I just broke up with my girlfriend. 我刚刚和女朋友分手了。 Yeah, it's a sad story. 对，这是个悲伤的故事。 But we are totally OK with it. 但是我们俩对此都很淡定。

It's not that something bad happened and we broke each other's heart. 并不是有什么坏事发生了然后我们伤了彼此的心。

It's just that we found out we don't really have many mutual hobbies. 我们只是发现，彼此真的没有什么共同爱好。

So we broke up peacefully and wished each other a better future. 于是，我们就和平分手了，然后希望对方能有一个更好的未来。 You see, sometimes you just got attracted biologically or irrationally by someone.

你看，有时候你就是会被一些人吸引，可能是生理性地，可能是没理性地。 But as time goes by you find out that you two are not interested in the same things.

但随着时间过去，你发现你们两个感兴趣的事情并不一样。

This is harmful for both of you, because love requires you to devote time into each other.

这对双方都是有害的，因为爱情需要你在对方身上投入时间。

But when you don't really like doing the same things, this is a waste of life. 但当你们喜欢的不是同样的东西时，这只是浪费生命。

We are all searching for a happy life. So don't trap yourself in an unhealthy

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relationship.

我们都在为自己寻找一个幸福的生活。所以，不要让自己陷在一段不健康的关系中。 Just let it go. 看开一点吧。 ==

能救命的健康小妙招

1.Don’t smoke. Take a tube full of carcinogens, light it on fire, and breathe the charred remains. Yikes. Just don’t.

1.不要吸烟。拿起一支塞满致癌物的烟卷，点上火，吸入烧焦的残留物。唉，快别吸了！

2.The more the food looks like it did when it started, the more of it you should have in your diet. An apple on a tree looks exactly like an apple in the store. You should eat apples. A steak looks quite similar to a butchered cow. You can eat some of that. Doritos look nothing like corn. You should eat none of them.

2.看起来越接近原材料的食物越应该吃。树上结的苹果和商店里的苹果一模一样，就应该吃。牛排看起来跟被屠宰的牛差不多，也可以吃一些。立体脆（百事的一款零食）和玉米一点儿都不像，就一点儿都不该吃。

3.Exercise is important, but you don’t have to be crazy with it. I’ve seen lots of really old healthy people who didn’t go to the gym 5 days a week. But they did walk, bike, play golf, swim, and generally keep moving fairly regularly. I have also spent a lot of time with people who never did any exercise at all. The end of their lives was far less pleasant.

3.锻炼很重要，但也要适量。我认识很多真的很健康的老人，他们并没有一周

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去五天健身房，但他们的确会散步、骑车、打高尔夫、游泳，锻炼非常有规律。我也深入接触过从不锻炼的人，他们晚年生活质量就差很多。

4.Keep your weight down, but don’t add stress to your life over it. Carrying 100 extra pounds will statistically shorten your life and make you far more likely to suffer from diabetes, heart disease, cancer. Carrying 10 extra pounds might slightly increase your risk. Carrying 0 extra pounds is best. If losing those 10 extra pounds is going to cause you major stress, though, it’s not worth losing them. Stress is no good for you.

4.要减肥，但不要因此给生活太大压力。据统计，超重100磅会缩短寿命，提高患糖尿病、心脏病、癌症的风险。超重10磅会有轻微患病风险，一点儿不超重最好。然而如果减掉超重的10磅会给你带来很大压力，那就不值得去做了。压力对你没有好处。

5.Speaking of stress, try to reduce it. This one is hardest for me — I’m high strung, work full time, have a wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 cars, and a house. It’s not always easy to destress. But you can do it. Try meditating, yoga, hiking, singing, whatever works for you.

5.说到压力，应尽量减轻。这对我来说是最难的——我很敏感，有全职工作，有妻子、2个孩子、2条狗、2辆车和一栋房子。减压没那么容易，但你也能做得到。试试冥想、瑜伽、徒步、唱歌，无论什么只要有效就行。

6.Find somebody to love. Statistics don’t lie on this one — married people live a fair bit longer and tend to be healthier.

6.找个人去爱。在这一点上统计数字不说谎——已婚人士寿命会更长一点，而且更健康。

7.Analyze everything you do, but in a low-key way. Little changes can make a huge difference. One silly example: I used to have to turn on the light in the

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morning to get underwear and socks out of my drawers to get dressed. I don’t like getting them out the night before, though, because I’m weird about stuff just sitting around. Turning on the light bothered my wife, who works later than I do and so is sleeping when I’m getting ready. Tiny annoyance. Solution? All black socks in one drawer, khaki in another. Now I can pick out socks in the dark. Took me 15 years to figure that one out, but it makes me a little happier. And so it was totally worth it.

7.分析你所做的一切，但要适度。小改变会有大影响。举个傻傻的例子：我过去早上常要开灯从抽屉里找内衣袜子穿，我不愿意前一天晚上找出来，因为身边有东西我会不舒服。开灯又会打扰到我妻子，她比我工作得晚，所以我起床穿衣服时她还在睡觉。她有点不高兴，怎么办呢？我把所有黑色袜子放一个抽屉，卡其色放另一个抽屉，现在我能摸黑找袜子了。15年才弄明白这一件事，但它使我更开心了，所以绝对值得 ==

喜讯! 九价HPV疫苗在我国获批上市!

Residents of the Chinese mainland now have access to a nine-way HPV vaccine -- which works against up to nine types of the human papillomavirus -- after the medication was given the nod by China's top drug administration. 我国最高药品管理部门日前批准了九价人乳头状瘤病毒疫苗（即HPV疫苗）上市，这意味着大陆居民将可接种这种能对抗9种类型的HPV病毒的疫苗。 It is the third HPV vaccine approved for the mainland market since the middle of last year.

这是自去年年中以来大陆市场批准上市的第三款HPV疫苗。

Such vaccines have proved effective against cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among Chinese women aged 15 to 44 after breast

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cancer.

该种疫苗可有效预防宫颈癌，宫颈癌是我国15至44岁女性中的第二大高发癌症，仅次于乳腺癌

Experts say China has around 130,000 new cases of cervical cancer each year, accounting for more than 28 percent of the world total.

专家们表示，中国每年有大约13万例宫颈癌新发病例，占世界总数的28%以上。 Before the availability of vaccines on the mainland, people had to travel to other countries or to Hong Kong to get the vaccine, which is injected in three separate doses over a span of six months.

在中国大陆批准该疫苗之前，人们必须到香港或其他国家去接种，具体接种需要在6个月内完成3次注射。

Australia -- the first country to offer free HPV vaccinations for 12-and 13-year-old girls, and catch-up programs for girls and women under 26 -- has seen a sharp decline in HPV infections since the introduction of a national school-based vaccination program in 2007.

澳大利亚是第一个为12-13岁女孩提供免费HPV疫苗、为26岁以下女性提供免费追赶计划的国家。自2007年推出一项国家性的基于学校的疫苗接种计划以来，该国的HPV感染人数急剧下降。

Within a decade, the proportion of 18-to 24-year-old women with HPV in the country has fallen from 22.7 percent to 1.5 percent.

在过去十年间，澳大利亚18至24岁年轻女性感染HPV的比例已经从原先的22.7%下降到了1.5%。 ==

巴菲特最睿智的一句话

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Warren Buffett is the current richest investor in the world. And he ranks No.2 among the world’s billionaires.

沃伦巴菲特是目前世界上最有钱的投资人，也是全球第2富有的富翁。 But, compared to his money, it’s those famous quotes of his that attract the public’s attention.

不过，与他的钱相比，他的名言往往才是大众关注的重点。

Though most people now see his words as jokes or anti chicken soup for the souls.

虽然现在很多人都把他的话当做笑谈，或者是毒鸡汤。 But I find his words really inspiring. 但我觉得，他说过的很多话真的很有道理。

And the one sentence which impressed me the most is the following: 而让我印象最深的一句就是这句：

Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

如果你的智商平平，那你需要的就是控制那些让一般人投资失败的欲望。 The No. 1 reason why most people fail to save is failing in controlling their desire.

大部分人存钱失败的根本原因，就是控制不了自己的欲望。 Desire makes you irrational. 欲望让人变得不理性。 And that’s exactly who I was. 而这就是从前的我。

Did I really need to drink a 30 RMB coffee just for several minutes’ worth of vibe?

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我真的需要为了那几分钟的气氛而去花30块喝一杯咖啡吗？ Did I really need all those new garments every month? 我真的需要每个月买这么多新衣服吗？ What did they bring me? 它们最终给我带来了什么？ They only brought me poverty. 它们给我带来了贫穷。

And the people who are behind these businesses have made money through my stupidity.

而那些在背后经营这些生意的人，则从我的愚蠢中赚到了钱 ==

怎样才能冷静面对困难

MS Dhoni was once asked by a student How does he manage to be calm in the exam hall just before the exam. It was during the promotions of the Movie MS Dhoni: The untold story. We all know how calm and focused our captain cool is.

曾有一名学生问MS多尼（印度板球队长）他考试前在考场是如何保持冷静的，当时正值电影《MS多尼：不为人知的故事》宣传期，我们都知道我们的高冷队长有多冷静多专注。

Here is exactly what Dhoni has replied. 下面就是多尼的回答。

““I think when you get the question paper in the exam, it’s already too late. You know, because if you have studied whole year then you must have remembered all the answers. You may miss few but ultimately, you can write answers. That is why, whenever I visit to a school and interact with the

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students, I have always said that it is important to be attentive in everyday class, study a bit every day. Not like, study in last two months like hell and do nothing rest of 9 or 10 months of the year.”

“我认为你考试时拿到试卷那一刻就已经太迟了，你心里都明白，因为如果你一整年都在学习，那你就一定记住了所有答案。你可能会出点错，但最终能把答案写上，这就是为什么每次我去学校和学生互动时总是说每天课上认真听讲、每天学一点儿很重要，而不应该一年中最后两个月拼命学，剩下的九个月或十个月都闲着。”

This was followed by a personal experience of Dhoni which includes a very interesting story about his school days.

接着他又讲了一段亲身经历，提到了上学时一件趣事。

“Talking about my own life and relating the same with me, I think during the class 12th as you can see that in the trailer as well. We had a match and I was very hesitant in talking to my father. My mother had agreed to it but how to make my father, understand, that there is an exam but I have a match to play before that and just after the completion of the exam, I have to take a train to play another match and only then I will come back. So finally, after collecting some courage I went to my father and explained the scenario,” Dhoni said.

多尼说：“电影讲的是我自己的生活，完全一致，正如你们在预告片中也能看到的，我记得是在12年级的时候，我们有一场比赛，我想跟我爸爸说又有点犹豫，妈妈同意了，但怎样才能让爸爸明白考试前我要参加一场比赛，考试结束后又得参加另一场比赛的训练，然后我才能回家。最后我鼓起勇气去跟爸爸说明情况。”

Dhoni’s father answered to him in a witty way, “My father answered it very

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calmly by saying that, son, if you have studied hard the whole year then one day won’t affect much and if you haven’t studied the whole year then still it won’t affect much. So, go and play.”

多尼的爸爸回答得很巧妙：“我爸爸非常冷静地回答说：‘儿子，如果你一整年学习都很努力，那一天没多大影响；如果你不是一整年都在学习，那一天也没多大影响。所以去比赛吧。’”

This may not exactly sound like staying calm in difficult situations but what is important here is the context of the scenario. Difficult situations test your patience and your will power to stay focused. Whatever harm was about to happen it will happen anyway. You won’t get a say about that. What you can do is make the best of what is in your hands. Stay focused and keep doing what you would have done anyway. Prepare yourself for the worst and face the consequences of your choices with a smile on your face.

这可能听起来并非是在困难中保持冷静，但此处的重点是谈话的背景。困难能考验你的耐心和保持专注的意志力，该来的总是要来，对此你没有任何发言权。你所能做的就是充分利用手中资源，保持专注并坚持做你无论如何都得做的事，做最坏的打算，面带微笑应对你的选择带来的后果。

As a wise man has said… “With great difficult situation comes great opportunity”. ( Please do not ask who is that wise man :p).

正如一位智者所说：“困难越大，机遇越大”（请不要问我这话是谁说的:p） Thanks! 谢谢！ ==

Reflections of a Mother

慈母：我赋予你生命，但不能代替你生活

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导读:孩子，我想对你说：我能给予你生命，但不能替你生活。我能抚养你长大成人，但保证不了你长大成才。韶华易逝，容颜渐老，当父母逐渐老去，你是否能像她们年轻时照顾我们一样去爱护她们？ I gave you life, but I cannot live it for you.

I can teach you things, but I cannot make you learn. I can give you directions, but I cannot be there to lead you. I can allow you freedom, but I cannot account for it. I can take you to church, but I cannot make you believe.

I can teach you right from wrong, but I can not always decide for you. I can buy you beautiful cloths, but I cannot make you beautiful inside. I can offter you advice, but I cannot accept it for you. I can give you love, but I cannot force it upon you. I can teach you to share, but I cannot make you unselfish. I can teach you respect, but I cannot force you to show honor. I can advise you about friend, but cannot choose them for you. I can advise you about sex, but I cannot keep you pure. I can tell you the facts of life, but I cannot build your reputation. I can tell you about drink, but I cannot say \

I can warn you about drugs, but I cannot prevent you from using them. I can tell you about lofty goals, but I cannot achieve them for you. I can teach you about kindness, but I cannot force you to be gracious. I can warn you about sins, but I cannot make you moral. I can love you as a child, but I cannot place you in God’s family. I can pray for you, but I cannot make you walk with God. I can teach you about Jusus, but I cannot make jesus your lord. I can tell you how to live, but I cannot give you eternal life.

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I can love you with unconditional love all of my life...and I will! ==

Watch how a T cell passes HIV sexually to a new host 艾滋病是如何通过性行为传染的？

While it’s well known that HIV is transmitted sexually, how the virus crosses genital mucus membranes to reach its targets in the immune system is less well understood. Previous research has looked at biochemical measurements or morphology at various points during HIV transmission to investigate this process, but in a study published in the journal Cell Reports, researchers in France constructed an in vitro model of urethral mucosa in order to view it from start to finish. We had this global idea of how HIV infects this tissue, but following something live is completely different. The precise sequence of events can be defined, and we were very surprised by them, says senior researcher Morgane Bomsel, a molecular biologist at the Institut Cochin (INSERM, CNRS, Paris Descartes University).

In the videos, a T cell infected with fluorescent-green-labeled HIV encounters epithelial cells of a reconstructed urethral mucosal tissue. When the infected T cell and an epithelial cell come into contact, a kind of pocket forms, called a virological synapse. This rearrangement of the infected cell’s membrane spurs production of infectious HIV virus, which appears in the videos as green fluorescent dots. Then, like the neon green ray of a blaster gun in an old sci-fi movie, the virus sheds across the synapse into the mucosal epithelial cell. Importantly, the epithelial cell isn’t infected: the virus simply travels across the cell via transcytosis. Once it crosses the epithelial layer, it’s captured by

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immune cells called macrophages in the stroma. After an hour or two, once the virus has been produced and shed, the cell contact ends and the infected T cell moves on.

These infected T cells are present in all genital fluids that vector infection. While cell-free viruses can cross the mucosa, they are much less efficient at penetrating it than cell-bound viruses that can make use of the virological synapse and transcytosis.

These macrophages continue to produce and shed the virus for 20 days, after which they enter a latent, non-virus-producing state. But the virus is still stored in the macrophage. This poses a challenge for efforts to develop treatments for HIV, because the virus reaches these

macrophage reservoirs in the genital tissue much earlier in the infection process than more frequently studied T cell reservoirs in the blood. Once HIV is installed into a reservoir, it makes life very complicated if you want to eradicate the virus, Bomsel says. Treatment with antiretroviral therapies can keep reservoirs of the virus latent, but stopping the therapy allows the virus to rebound and continue

spreading. \avoid this reservoir formation, which is why I think a vaccine active at the mucosa is what you would need. Because you can’t wait.\

This is something her team is already at work on. \ways to purge the reservoir, because we think we know how to kill the virus once we shock the reservoir. And another part of what we do here is work to develop a mucosal HIV vaccine,\complicated field, but I think it’s important.\==

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为保护珊瑚礁，夏威夷颁布法令禁用防晒霜

Hawaii proposes ban on certain sunscreens to save coral reefs

对爱美的女士来说，去海边度假不用防晒霜简直是不可想象的事情，但是美国夏威夷州即将颁布的禁令就是针对防晒霜的，因为各种防晒产品已经危及到那里珊瑚礁的生存。

In an effort to save its at-risk coral reefs, Hawaii has become the first state to pass a law banning specific sunscreen products.

为了拯救夏威夷濒危的珊瑚礁，夏威夷州成为美国首个对特定防晒产品颁布禁令的州。

The new law prohibits the sale and distribution of sunscreens containing the chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate. Scientists have found that these chemicals, when washed off the skin and into the ocean, can cause coral bleaching.

这项新法令禁止销售含有氧苯酮和桂皮酸盐的防晒产品。科学家发现防晒产品中的这些成分从人类身上被冲洗到海水中以后会导致珊瑚白化。

Coral reefs are fragile, yet vital, parts of the world's ecosystems, and they support the highest marine biodiversity in the world. Reefs are also essential to more than half a billion people who depend on them for food, jobs and recreation — with an estimated economic impact of $375 billion a year. 珊瑚礁十分脆弱，作为世界生态环境重要的一部分，珊瑚礁维持着世界最高的海洋生物多样性。同时，超过5亿人的食物、工作以及娱乐都要仰仗珊瑚礁资源。

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据估算，珊瑚礁每年可以创造出3750亿美元（合23769亿元人民币）的经济效益。

As early as the 1990s, scientists have examined the effects of sunscreen, and other personal products made with chemicals, on the environment. And a globe-spanning 2015 study examined coral reefs in the US Virgin Islands, Israel and Hawaii, and found that oxybenzone significantly leaches coral of nutrients. Some ecotourism sites and private resorts in the tropics already prohibit similar products.

在20世纪90年代初，科学家就调查出防晒霜和其他含有化学物质的个人用品对环境的影响。然后在2015年全球范围内的研究中发现在美属维尔京群岛、以色列和夏威夷群岛，氧苯酮会极大地滤掉珊瑚的养分。在一些热带的生态旅游景点和私人度假村已经禁止使用相似的防晒产品了。

Democrat Sen. Mike Gabbard of Hawaii introduced Senate Bill No. 2571, whose text states, \corals' resiliency and ability to adjust to climate change factors and inhibit recruitment of new corals.\

夏威夷的民主党议员迈克·加巴德提出了第2571号参议院法案，在法案中提到，“这些化学成分也会降低珊瑚的可恢复性和适应气候变化的能力，而且还会抑制新珊瑚的生长。”

\the perfect place to set the gold standard for the world to follow,\told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

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加巴德告诉《檀香山星广报》说：“想想看，你会发现，我们被珊瑚礁围绕的美丽家园正是全世界保护珊瑚礁的标杆和榜样的不二之选。”

An NPR article found that the chemicals appear in \world's most popular sunscreen products,\brands Hawaiian Tropic, Coppertone and Banana Boat, and different estimates place the number of products between 40 and 70 percent of products currently on the market.

美国公共广播电台网站上的一篇文章指出，这些化学物质在“超过3500种全世界最畅销的防晒产品”里都有出现，包括Hawaiian Tropic，Coppertone和Banana Boat等品牌，根据不同的估算结果，差不多有40%至70%的在售防晒产品都含有这些化学物质。

The proposed ban fairly exhaustively \paste, balm, ointment, cream, solid stick applicator, brush applicator, roll-on applicator, aerosol spray, non-aerosol spray pump, and automated and manual mist spray.\

这项禁令详尽地“包含且不限于乳液、软膏、体露、药膏、乳霜、固体棒状涂抹器、刷子涂抹器、走珠式涂抹器、气体喷雾、非喷雾按压式、自动或手动喷雾”。 The bill passed both chambers of the state legislature; Hawaii's 25 state senators voted for the bill unanimously, while only four of the 51 members of the state's House of Representatives voted against it. If signed by Governor David Ige, the bill will take effect Jan. 1, 2021, and Hawaii will become the first state to enact such a law, perhaps setting the stage for more coastal

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states to take action.

目前该州参众两院都投票通过了这项法令；其中夏威夷25位州参议员全票一致通过，而州众议院51位成员中只有4位投了反对票。待夏威夷州长大卫·伊格签字后，这项法案将会在2021年1月1日正式生效，夏威夷也会成为第一个颁布这种法令的州，或许也为其他拥有珊瑚礁的州打下基础。

Sunscreen is not the only factor putting reefs at risk; scientists have shown CO2 emissions and ocean temperatures also affect the ecosystems. 防晒霜并非危害珊瑚礁的唯一因素；科学家表示，二氧化碳的排放和海洋温度的变化也会影响到生态系统 ==

猫咪教给我们的那些事

对于爱猫人士而言，猫独立又慵懒，在自己的世界中自得其乐。猫的特质总是能深深抓住人们的心：它不惧过往，不忧未来，活在当下，其内在的和谐统一实在是令人望尘莫及……猫能教给我们的其实很多。那么关于生活，人类究竟可以从猫身上学到些什么呢？ By John Gray 柯宁莘 译

A philosopher once assured me, many years ago, that he had converted his cat to veganism. Believing he was joking, I asked how he had achieved this feat. Had he supplied the cat with mouse-flavored vegan food? Had he presented his cat with other cats, already practicing veganism, as feline role

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models? Or had he argued with the cat and convinced it that eating meat is wrong? My interlocutor wasn’t amused, and I realized that he really believed the cat had opted for a meat-free diet.

很多年以前，有一位哲学家曾信誓旦旦地和我说，他让他的猫学会了吃纯素。我以为他是开玩笑，便问他是如何实现这一个壮举的。是给猫提供了老鼠口味的素食吗？还是通过其他猫成功吃素的案例给他的猫树立了榜样？又或者曾经和他的猫争论并使它相信吃肉是不对的？然而我面前的这位仁兄并没有被逗笑，这让我意识到他真的认为是他的猫自己选择了吃素。

The independence of cats is one of the features most admired by those of us who love them. Having entered into close proximity with human beings, cats were quickly recognized as being useful to them.

在猫的种种特质中，我们这些爱猫人士最欣赏的一点就是它的独立性。当猫与人的关系变得亲密之后，人们很快就意识到了猫的重要作用。

For many cat lovers, I suspect what they cherish is not how cats resemble us, but their differences from us. Living with cats opens a window into a world beyond our own and teaches us something important about what it means to be human.

我甚至怀疑许多爱猫人士喜欢的并不是猫与我们的相似点，而是它们与我们的不同之处。与猫同住不仅让我们有机会了解人类以外的世界，还教会我们一些重要的事情，即人类的意义所在。

One of the most attractive features of cats is that contentment is their default

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state. Unlike human beings—particularly of the modern variety—they do not spend their days in laborious pursuit of a fantasy of happiness. They are comfortable with themselves and their lives, and remain in that condition for as long as they are not threatened. When they are not eating or sleeping, they pass the time exploring and playing, never asking for reasons to live. Life itself is enough for them.

猫最吸引人的一点就是它们一向自得其乐，不像人类——特别是现代人——它们不会把时间花在汲汲于享乐上。猫对于自身和自己的生活怡然自得，并且只要四周没有威胁，它们就乐于保持现状。猫在不吃饭或不睡觉的时候，就会将时间花在探险和玩耍上，从不会追寻活着的意义，因为对它们来说只要活着就足够了。

If there are people who can’t stand cats—and it seems there are many—one reason may be envy. As Jeffrey Masson, whose The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats is the best book on cats ever published, has written:

如果有人不能忍受猫——似乎为数不少——那么原因之一可能是嫉妒。正如杰弗里?马森，目前出版的关于猫的最好的一本书——《猫咪的九种情感生活》的作者，曾经写道：

In English, if not in “cat”, the word contentment conveys something of a feeling of being at peace with the world or with yourself. It is more of a state than a fleeting emotion. A person can be happy (momentarily) without being content. Contentment cannot be purchased; happiness, on the other hand, has a price.

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在英语中，如果不是用在猫身上，那么“满足”这个词代表的就是你与世界或者你与自己达到的和谐统一。相较于稍纵即逝的情绪，满足更似一种状态。一个人即使在不满足时也可以是快乐的（即使是暂时的）。满足感我们无法用钱来买到；而快乐，从另一方面来说，是有标价的。

Whereas human beings search for happiness in an ever-increasing plethora of religions and therapies, cats enjoy contentment as their birthright. Why this is so is worth exploring. Cats show no sign of regretting the past or fretting about the future. They live, absorbed in the present moment. It will be said that this is because they cannot envision he past or future. Perhaps so, though their habit of demanding their breakfast at the accustomed hour shows they do have a sense of the passage of time. But cats, unlike people, are not haunted by an anxious sense that time is slipping away. Not thinking of their lives as stories in which they are moving towards some better state, they meet each day as it comes. They do not waste their lives dreading the time when their lives must end. Not fearing death, they enjoy a kind of immortality. All animals have these qualities but they seem particularly pronounced in cats. Of all the animals that have lived closely with human beings, cats must surely be the least influenced by them.

人们在越来越多的宗教和治疗中寻求快乐，而猫却将满足视为其与生俱来的权利。这其中的原委值得我们探讨。猫既不会对过去感到遗憾，也不会对未来感到焦虑，它们全神贯注地活在当下。有人可能说，这是因为它们无法追忆过往和想象未来。可能是这样，虽然猫定时吃早餐的习惯证明它们有时间观念，但

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与人类不同的是，它们不会对时间的流逝产生焦虑感。猫不会像活在故事里一样去追求更好的生活状态，而只是迎接每一天的到来。它们不会浪费时间为生命必将迎来的终结而感到恐惧。它们不惧死亡，因此享受着一种不朽的状态。所有的动物都具有这些特质，但这些似乎在猫身上尤为彰显。而在所有与人类共同生活过的动物当中，猫一定是最不受人类影响的。

“When I play with my cat,” Montaigne wrote, “how do I know she is not playing with me?” With creatures that can be understood only partly by us, one can only speculate about their inner life. Yet it is tempting to suppose that the secret of feline contentment is that cats have no need to defer to a picture of themselves as they imagine they should be. Certainly they have a sense of dignity: they avoid people who treat them disrespectfully, for instance. Yet cats do not struggle to remake themselves according to any ideal self-image. Not inwardly divided, they are happy to be themselves.

“和我家猫玩耍的时候，”蒙田写道，“我怎么知道她并不是在和我玩呢？”我们往往不能完全地理解它们，只能猜测它们的内心所想。我们很想这样猜测：猫获得满足感的秘诀就在于它们不必成为自以为应该成为的样子（即安于现状）。当然它们会有尊严感：例如，它们拒绝接近不尊重它们的人。但猫还是不会按照任何完美的样子费力改造自己。它们内心从不矛盾，只乐于做自己。 The moralizing philosopher who believed he had persuaded his cat to adopt a meat-free diet only showed how silly philosophers can be. Rather than seek to teach his cat, he would have been wiser to learn from it, as Montaigne did.

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A moderate walk requires about three times your resting metabolic rate, running and sport require much more -- typically about seven times. Both walking and vigorous sport will reduce your risk of dying prematurely at any age. But you have to spend much more time walking: one minute of vigorous sport is worth 3.5 minutes of walking. To reduce your risk of dying by 20%, for example, you would need to walk for 56 minutes a day. You'd get the same benefit by running for 16 minutes ==

Mother’s Day gift guide: several ideas that will help make mom’s life easier 母亲节：怎样才能让母亲在这天感到温暖？

导读:五月的鲜花，开满儿女的牵挂，我有很多真心话，不知道如何表达；您为我为了这个家，付出多少辛劳啊，祝福您亲爱的妈妈，母亲节快乐。 Mother’s Day is right around the corner, which means it’s time to get shopping.

What better way to celebrate the mother figure in your life than by gifting her something on May 13 that will make her life easier? We can’t think of one, so we’ve rounded up a few gift ideas for mom that will help her out.

Help mom stay connected. Mom’s schedule is beyond busy. Help her stay connected to her calendar (and more) with a hands-free,

voice-activated smart home device, like Google Home ($129 on Jet.com). By simply saying, \appointment times, play music or ask any other question she might have.

Help mom with dinner. Is your mom a cooking queen? Give her a break

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with a subscription to a meal kit service. Several companies have become part of the the popular dinner tool business, which means there are plenty of options to fit your family’s needs.

Help mom clean up. Let mom put her feet up while a robot does the cleaning by gifting her a iRobot Roomba 801, which sucks away dirt and can be scheduled to clean up to 7 times per week ($399 on Jet.com). Its dirt detection sensors also alert the machine to concentrate on areas that need a little extra cleaning — so the finished job will be up to mom’s standards.

Help mom de-stress. Did you give mom an essential oil kit for Mother’s Day last year? Upgrade her collection with natural soaps infused with the same soothing aromatic oils. Edens Garden’s Lavender Magnolia bar will hydrate skin as its scent helps promote relaxation ($10.95). They also sell a De-Stress Set that includes three different anxiety-melting oil blends ($21.95). ==

有声双语美文：找准了前进方向，真的很幸福

I remember there is a sentence in the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona. 我记得电影《午夜巴塞罗那》中有一句话：

\“她并不知道她喜欢什么，她只知道她不喜欢什么。” This sentence is describing Cristina. 这句话是在形容克里斯蒂娜。

Back then I found this sentence really attractive. But that was when I was a foolish child and didn't know yet how hard life can be.

当时，我觉得这句话真的很有吸引力。但那时的我只是个傻里傻气的孩子，还

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不知道生活能有多艰难。

Now I find no charm in this expression. I only see confusion and pain in it. 而现在，我已经觉得这句话毫无魅力。我只在里面看到了困惑与痛苦。 Not knowing what to do is the greatest suffering in the world. 不知道做什么，这真的是世上最大的苦难了。 I've suffered it, in my life and in my career. 我承受过这种苦难，在生活中和事业中都承受过。

The beauty that I once assumed I would find in this state of vacancy never existed. It only seems to be beauty when you see it in someone else's life. 我曾经以为这种真空状态里蕴含的那种美，其实根本就不存在。它只有在发生于别人身上的时候，才看起来是美的。

When it happens to you. Believe me. It's not beautiful at all. 当它发生在你身上时，相信我，真的一点都不美。

Now I really cherish the goals that I've found or set for myself. 现在，我真的很珍惜那些我为自己找到或者创造的目标。 Life can only be happy if you find something to work for. 只有当你有奋斗目标的时候，生活才可能幸福。

So search for it when you still have time. End your suffering while you can. 所以，趁你还有时间，去寻找他们吧。在你还有能力的时候，结束掉自己的苦难 ==

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