2024年4月28日发(作者：)

英译汉1：15分

Enlarge Your Comfort Zone

The most common mistake people make when trying to create more

happiness in their lives is playing it too safely. By confining your range of activities

to only those you know will make you happy, you cut yourself off from exploring

parts of yourself that you may never know existed, parts that could be developed

and are simply waiting to give you pleasure.

Clearly the enemy of happiness is predictability and complacency. Living a life

is similar to running a business, and anyone who has ever had a hand in making

decisions on a daily basis about which merchandise to buy, which clients to

cultivate, which direction to head, knows the terrain. If the business does not grow,

at least in some way, it contracts, perhaps not immediately, but certainly before

long. There is no healthy business anywhere that is not growing - in vision, in

customers, in stores or outlets, and/or in its range of goods and services.

It is exactly the same with happiness. If you rely year after year on the familiar,

on the safe, on the same old tired formula, you will find your life providing you

with less and less happiness. Life needs to be revitalized, reexamined, tinged with

the excitement of the new and different.

英译汉2：35分

Happiness is Individual

This is easier to overlook than you think. What makes your spouse, your

neighbor or your best friend happy will not necessarily make you happy. Although

on the face of it this is an obvious consideration, it is tempting to fall into patterns

of behaviour that do not and will not work for you simply because you cannot

resist the pressure, sometimes subtle and sometimes overt, to conform.

We all live within a network of influence that includes friends, family,

colleagues, school, and beyond these immediate influences are the nation, the

media, and the world at large. Each of these elements has expectations of us,

sometimes consistent, sometimes contradictory, but always powerful.

Yet at the same time, there is no one exactly like you, never has been, never

will be. The happiest people are those who recognize that their happiness is

their

happiness, not their father’s, or their Aunt Mary’s, or their boss’s, or the guy’s

on TV in the commercial telling you that brand X just won’t do the same for you

as brand Y.

The quality of my own happiness shot up like a rocket when I realized that I

didn’t have to live anyone else’s life, that what I wanted to do was valid and

legitimate, even if others found it “weird” or “unorthodox” or “radical”.

when I recognized that I did not have to play corporate politics, purchase my

happiness, or acknowledge any external limitations, I stopped living a lie.

The task in life (and that task is an exciting, marvelous, surprising experience)

is to find out who you are and

be that person

. What makes you literally jump for

joy? What gets your adrenalin pumping so that you feel like popping out of your

skin, that your cannot sit still or not share your feeling because it is so overflowing

that your own body cannot contain it? You know when it is there. You do not need

anyone to tell you how you feel about something, whether it draws or repels your,

whether it makes you deliriously happy or puts you to sleep.

If you keep your inner eye on your life, both the individual elements and the

broader whole, you will more quickly develop a sense of where you want to be,

with whom, and doing what.

汉译英：50分

情绪，就像流感一样容易人传人。要是你周围都是积极的乐天派，你自己也会跟着乐

观起来。

别人有了困难我们当然不能退避三舍。但是有些人善于自找麻烦，有本事总让自己扮

演杯具角色。这种人可是万万招惹不起的。看到别人伤心难过，自己却笑容满面的，我们

难免心生愧疚，觉得非陪着哭一场才够意思似的。要是哪天有朋友找你倾诉伤心事，迫于

情势，你可能会说：“最近我工作也不顺心，”或者“都快累成狗了，我明白你的感受啊。”

其实，这种时候你千万不要跟着倒苦水。如果非倒不可的话，也尽量说一些有裨益的话，

比如：“我工作中也遇到了麻烦，好在我找老板当面把话说清楚，现在都理顺了。”你本想

跟别人聊聊的，要是弄得自己也难过得一塌糊涂，岂不是医生被病人传染，谁救谁呢？

当然，我们也需要敞开心扉、实言相告，需要听取朋友的意见。要是倾诉能让你感觉

好过一点，那就淋漓尽致地倾诉。但是你要知道，消极悲观会变成习惯。一旦发现自己沉

湎其中，要像看电视换台一样毅然改变自己的心态。