sense,of,well-being

篇一：well-being

well-being英音：['wel'bi:i?]美音：['w?l'bi??]

以下结果由译典通提供词典解释

名词 n.

1.

康乐,安康;福利[U]

She worked for the well-being of the underprivileged.

她为下层贫困民众的福利而努力。

Work also provides psychological well-being.

工作还能使人身心健康。

以下结果来自互联网网络释义

well-being

1.

福祉

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28. 福祉 well-being

2.

康乐,安康;福利

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well-being 康乐,安康;福利

3.

社会安宁富有的状态

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well-being ['wel'bi:?] n. 幸福；康乐

更多释义详见下面的造句~

造句：

1. Happiness is our highest well-being.

幸福是我们的最高福利。

2. Promote psychological well-being on campus.

在校园内推广心理健康。

3. We should always be well-being. Forever together.

我们要永远的幸福。永远在一起。

4. When your heart is singing, you are allowing Well-being.

当你的心在唱歌，你就是在允许幸福康乐。

5. The first deals with familiar criticisms of GDP as a measure of well-being. 第一部分处理关于将GDP作为富有测量指标的常见的批评。

6. First, we should endeavour to work for the well-being of the next generation. 第一，我们必须为下一代的幸福理想，努力做好今天的工作。

7. Human well-being will be affected by biodiversity loss both directly and indirectly.

生物多样性缺失将直接和间接影响人类的幸福安康。

8. The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds.

你可以教导你们的孩子们的最重要的事情就是快乐安康是丰足的。

9. Man developed with the conditions for his being, but before the conditions of his well-being.

人类跟着他的生存条件一同发展，没有等到他的善生条件的成熟。

10. The staff are friendly and attentive with no detail overlooked to ensure the well-being of our guests.

工作人员是友好和周到，没有详细地忽略，以确保市民的福祉我们的客人。

11. You can ask your friends to show you are concerned about the condition of their body, their well-being.

这句话可以用来问候朋友表示关心，你关心他们的身体状况，关心他们是否过得好。

12. A beautiful bond. A Purple and Gold Family, each person with an important job to ensure the well-being of the family.

完美的结合。紫金大家庭--每一个人在大家庭里都担当重要的角色，整个家庭温馨和睦。

13. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

健康是身体的、心理的及社会的达到完全安适状态，而不仅是没有疾病或身体虚弱而已。

14. Contaminated wastewater is often used to irrigate food crops, creating significant risks for human health and well-being.

受污染废水通常用于灌溉粮食作物，这对人类的幸福安康造成了重大风险。

15. Are those poor kids must be so embarrassed to live it? No, they are just bad luck, born in poverty or well-being of families.

难道那些可怜的孩子就一定要生活的那么狼狈吗？不，他们只是运气不好，生在了贫困或不幸福的家庭里。

16. Economists have tended to content themselves with a laughably simple picture of human motivation, rationality and well-being.

经济学家倾向满足于一幅人类动机，理性和幸福的可笑的简单图画。

17. Advances in research across a number of disciplines enable us now to develop broader, more encompassing measures of well-being.

许多学科领域研究的进步，使得我们现在能够开发出更广泛、涵盖面更广的幸福指标。

18. Besides a feeling of well-being, Mailly and I have experienced so much peace during this time. I can't explain it, but it is true.

除了健康的状况，柯妈妈和我在这段期间里经历了很大的平安，我无法解释是怎麽一回事，但我只能说，是真的！

19. What is the point if we burn vast quantities of fossil fuels to make, buy and consume ever more stuff, without noticeably benefiting our well-being?

如果我们消耗大量的矿物燃料来制造、购买以及消费更多的东西，却并没有显著增加幸福感，这又有什么意义呢？

20. Novel, unique images, expressing the aspirations of classmates ----

solidarity and harmony classes where the collective well-being, happy to learn, grow!

新颖、别致的画面，表达了全班同学的心声----在团结、和谐的班集体里幸福、快乐地学习、成长！

21. Such an intergenerational transfer would come at enormous political and social cost, not least in a society with such a strong sense of communal well-being.

如此一个两代间转移将会耗费大量的政治和社会成本，尤其是在这样一个具有公共福利的强烈意识的国家。

22. Everyone needs to work but what does work mean to him? In the following essay Leonard R. Sayles explores the relationship between work and human beings' well-being.

每个人都必须劳动，可是劳动意味着啥？在下面这篇文章里，莱昂纳多·塞勒斯研究了劳动和人类幸福之间的关系。

23. For each well-being of people who are different, my understanding is that happiness is a kind of spiritual satisfaction in the carefree happiness of the family grow.

对于每个人来说幸福都是不一样的，我的理解是，幸福是一种心灵的满足，是在那幸福的家庭中无忧无虑的茁壮成长。

24. Nationalism: A strong affection and commitment to the well-being of the nation with which one identifies, in comparison with minimal concern for those outside the nation.

「国家主义」是一个相较于对其他国家仅有极微的关心，对于自己认同之福利的国家却有的强烈情感与支持。

25. Objective: To reveal the structure of optimism of college students and the relationship between optimism and psychological well-being(satisfaction with life and depression).

目的：揭示大学生乐观的结构，探讨乐观与心理幸福感（即生活满意度、抑郁）的关系。

26. Jupiter will also be working to bring you more joy, inner peace, happiness, and a sense of well-being into your spiritual practices, relaxation efforts, and emotional processes.

木星也将努力为您带来更多的喜悦，内心的和平，幸福，一种幸福感到您的精神练习，放松努力，和情感过程。

27. Can we sharpen the causal interrelations among population, money stock, commercialization, climatic change, food production, and the material well-being of the Chinese peasantry?

我们能确定人口、货币存量、商业化、气候变化、食物生产和中国小农阶级物质福利之间因果相关性吗？

28. Because of the motherland and the people, as mothers and children, is linked to the fate and destiny, linked to stigma and shame, pain and suffering together, the well-being and happiness together!

因为，祖国与人民，正如母亲和子女，是命运与命运连在一起，耻辱与耻辱连在一起，痛苦与痛苦连在一起，幸福与幸福连在一起！

29. The result is: 1 seven influencing factors exist in college students

well-being, self-consciousness, school study, communication, love, work and social adaptation, family stators and leisure activity.

结果发现：（1）影响大学生幸福感有七个因素，即自我意识、学校学习、人际交往、恋爱、工作与社会适应、家庭环境、休闲活动。

30. The report - Employee entitlements during pregnancy and maternal psychological well-being - was based on a survey of 165 women who were employed during pregnancy before the birth of their first child.

这项关于“怀孕期间员工权利和母亲心理健康”的报告，是基于对165名妇女的统计调查，她们曾在生育第一名孩子的怀孕期间受雇佣。

打了好多句子，累死我了，希望可以帮到你！

well-being ['wel'bi:?]

基本翻译

n. 康乐；幸福

网络释义

well-being:幸福， 福利|福祉|幸福

subjective well-being:主观幸福感|幸福感|自觉的快乐

economic well-being:生活水平|经济福祉|贫富

篇二：新托福TPO13阅读原文及译文(一)

新托福TPO13阅读原文(一):Types of Social Groups

TPO13-1：Types of Social Groups

Life places us in a complex web of relationships with other people. Our humanness arises out of these relationships in the course of social interaction. Moreover, our humanness must be sustained through social interaction—and fairly constantly so. When an association continues long enough for two people to become linked together by a relatively stable set of expectations, it is called a relationship. People are bound within relationships by two types of bonds: expressive ties and instrumental ties. Expressive ties are social links formed when we emotionally invest ourselves in and commit ourselves to other people. Through association with people who are meaningful to us, we achieve a sense of security, love, acceptance, companionship, and personal worth. Instrumental ties are social links formed when we cooperate with other people to achieve some goal. Occasionally, this may mean working with instead of against competitors. More often, we simply cooperate with others to reach some end without endowing the relationship with any larger significance.

Sociologists have built on the distinction between expressive and instrumental ties to distinguish between two types of groups: primary and secondary. A primary group involves two or more people who enjoy a direct, intimate, cohesive relationship with one another. Expressive ties predominate in primary groups; we view the people as ends in themselves and valuable in their own right. A secondary group entails two or more people who are involved in an impersonal relationship and have come together for a specific, practical purpose. Instrumental ties predominate in secondary groups; we perceive people as means to ends rather than as ends in their own right. Sometimes primary group relationships evolve out of secondary group relationships. This happens in many work settings. People on the job often develop close relationships with coworkers as they come to share gripes, jokes, gossip, and satisfactions.

A number of conditions enhance the likelihood that primary groups will arise. First, group size is important. We find it difficult to get to know people personally when they are milling about and dispersed in large groups. In small groups we have a better chance to initiate contact and establish rapport with them. Second, face-to-face contact allows us to size up others. Seeing and talking with one another in close physical proximity makes possible a subtle exchange of ideas and feelings. And third, the probability that we will develop primary group bonds increases as we have frequent and continuous contact. Our ties with people often deepen as we interact with them across time and gradually evolve interlocking habits and interests.

Primary groups are fundamental to us and to society. First, primary groups are critical to the socialization process. Within them, infants and children are introduced to the ways of their society. Such groups are the breeding grounds in which we acquire the norms and values that equip us for social life. Sociologists view primary groups as bridges between individuals and the larger society because they transmit, mediate, and interpret a society's cultural patterns and provide the sense of oneness so critical for social solidarity.

Second, primary groups are fundamental because they provide the settings in which we meet most of our personalneeds. Within them, we experience companionship, love, security, and an overall sense of well-being. Not surprisingly, sociologists find that the strength of a group's primary ties has implications for the group's functioning. For example, the stronger the primary group ties of a sports team playing together, the better their record is.

Third, primary groups are fundamental because they serve as powerful instruments for social control. Their members command and dispense many of the rewards that are so vital to us and that make our lives seem worthwhile. Should the use of rewards fail, members can frequently win by rejecting or threatening to ostracize those who deviate from the primary group's norms. For instance, some social groups employ shunning (a person can remain in the community, but others are forbidden to interact with the person) as a device to bring into line individuals whose

behavior goes beyond that allowed by the particular group. Even more important, primary groups define social reality for us by structuring our experiences. By providing us with definitions of situations, they elicit from our behavior that conforms to group-devised meanings. Primary groups, then, serve both as carriers of social norms and as enforcers of them.

TPO13-1译文：社会群组的类型

我们和他人一起生活在一个复杂的关系网中。我们的人性就产生于这种社会性的互动关系中，与此同时，我们的人性也必须通过经常性的社会互动才能得以维持。当两个人在比较稳定的期望值下的交流时间足够长并且形成一种联系时，这种联系就可以称为关系。

人与人之间的关系可以分为两种：情感纽带和工具纽带。情感纽带是当我们做情感投资并致力于他人的一种社会关系。通过和对我们来说十分重要的人交流从而得到安全感、爱情、认同、友谊以及个人价值等一系列情感。工具纽带是我们为达到某种目的而与他人进行合作时产生的社会联系方式。有些时候，这也许意味着变相与竞争者共事。更多的时候我们没有发展出任何更有意义的关系而只是简单的与他人合作达成目的。

社会学家基于情感纽带与工具纽带区别，将社会群体划分成两类：主要群体和次要群体。一个主要群体包含两个以上成员，他们彼此之间的关系是直接的,亲密的,聚合性的。情感纽带在主要社群中起主导作用，我们把人们自身看做目标和人们自己权利的价值。次要群体也是由两个以上成员组成，他们因非个人关系聚到一起都是为了一个特定的,实际的目标而努力。工具纽带在次要群体中起了重要的作用。我们把人自身看做是人目标的途径而不是人们自己权利的目标。有时主要群体的关系也会在次要群体中演化而来。这种现象在工作环境中时有发

生。工作伙伴在共事过程中会彼此分享抱怨、玩笑、八卦以及满足感，由此也会发展出亲近的关系。

很多情况也会增加主要群体出现的可能性。首先，群体的规模非常重要。我们很难去了解那些散布在大群体中的某个人。而在小群体中我们有更多机会发起联系并与他人建立关系。第二，面对面的交流能让我们更好地了解彼此。与他人近距离接触和交谈可以更好地交流情感和思想。第三，频繁持续的交流也能增加我们发展主要群体的可能性。我们与他人的联系会随着我们与他人的互动时间而加深，并逐渐演化出连锁的习惯和兴趣。

主要群体是人与人之间乃至整个社会的基础。首先，主要群体在社会化进程中至关重要。在主要群体里，婴儿与孩童可以学习处世方式。这种群体是我们社会生活必备规范和价值的培养地。社会学家将主要群体比作独立个体与整个社会之间的桥梁，因为它能传达,调解并解读一个社会的文化模式，提供一种归属感有助于社会团结。

其次，主要群体之所以是基础是因为它能提供满足我们大多数人需求的环境。在主要群体中，我们可以收获友情、爱情、安全感以及所有幸福的情感。社会学家发现一个群体的主要纽带的强弱往往暗示着这个群体的功能，这不足为奇。例如，一个体育团队的主要群体纽带越强，他们就越容易取得好成绩。

第三，主要群体之所以是基础还因为他们充当了强有力的社会调控工具。群体中的成员掌控并分配能够维持我们生存的极其重要的资源。如果奖励方式不当，群体内成员就会通过拒绝或威胁来摒弃那些背离群体规范的人，例如，一些社会群体采取规避措施(人可以留在群体中，但禁止其他成员与其交流)，从而将特定群体中逾矩的个体慢慢同化与他人一致。更重要的是，主要群体通过构

筑我们的经验来定义社会现实。他们根据我们的行为来定义我们的处境，以遵循群体分配的意义。因此，主要群体既是社会规范的载体同时也是社会规范的实施者。

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篇三：大学英语1习题及参考答案2

大学英语1习题及参考答案2

Part I. For each of the following 20 incomplete sentences, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence.

1.In a telephone survey of more than 2000 adults, 21% said they believed the sun revolved around the earth. An ___ 7% did not know which revolved around which.

A、excessive

B、extra

C、additional

D、added

答案：C

2.The tower is open 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on ___, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on weekends.

A、Saturdays

B、Sundays

C、days

D、weekdays

答案：D

3.The rock has to be ___ in order to build a road.

A、explored

B、blasted

C、blown

D、slammed

答案：B

4.There was a(n) ___ accident here yesterday.

A、possible

B、audible

C、irreversible

D、horrible

答案：D

5.He has got all the ___ ready for building his new house.

A、staff

B、stiff

C、stuffy

D、stuff

答案：D

6.Bad eggs have a(n) ___ odor.

A、extensive

B、aggressive

C、offensive

D、compulsive

答案：C

7.When her uncle died, she ___ everything she could get her hands on.

A、grabbed

B、snatched

C、gripped

D、grasped

答案：A

8.She gave the house a ___ cleaning.

A、perfect

B、compete

C、though

D、thorough

答案：D

9.Many eminent scientists from all over the world came to china to ___ in the forum on nuclear physics.

A、attend

B、celebrate

C、observe

D、participate

答案：D

10.Be careful with this ancient basin as it is ___ a lot.

A、worth

B、worthy

C、worthwhile

D、deserving

答案：A

11.The water was so clear that it ___ the trees on the river bank.

A、shadowed

B、shaded

C、photographed

D、reflected

答案：D

12.I gave her the key ___ she would be able to go inside.

A、that

B、so that

C、since

D、as

答案：B

13.The book is unsatisfactory in ___ it lacks a good index.

A、what

B、why

C、which

D、that

答案：D

14.Without water, how long can a man ___ out?

A、late

B、continue

C、last

D、survive

答案：C

15.Once ___ to the rail, the car will become electrically powered from the system, and control of the vehicle will pass to a central computer.

A、applied

B、detached

C、attached

D、contrived

答案：C

16. We are late, _____, we are lost.

A. however

B. as a matter of fact

C. nevertheless

D. moreover

答案：D

17. The great bridge was named_____ its designer.

A. of

B. with

C. after

D. from

答案：C

18. The train_____ about three hours late.

A. pulled

B. pulled down

C. pulled on

D. pulled out

答案：D

19. You will never guess whom I ____ on the street yesterday.

A. ran over

B. ran out of

C. ran into

D. ran up to

答案：C

20. I think I turned off the light but I'll go back and _____.

A. be sure

B. make sure

C. feel sure

D. be certain

答案：B

Part II. There are 1 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.

Studies in advanced economies show, as one would expect, that for every 1,000 pounds increase in income there is, indeed, an increased sense of well-being —but only for the poorest fifth of the population. Beyond that, there is almost no increase in people’s satisfaction with their lives as income levels increase. In Australia, there is a slightly closer relation between level of income and well-being, but in the US and England there is only an unimportant and irregular relationship. The rich are no happier than the middle classes and the upper middle class is no happier than the lower middle class. Beyond poverty or near-poverty levels of income, if money buys happiness, it buys very little and often it buys none at all.

This is strange because market economists report that the purpose of the market is to maximize the satisfaction of human wants. But they measure that satisfaction, called “utility”, in a circular manner: satisfaction with something is revealed by the very fact that it was bought.

Yet studies show that the things that contribute most to a sense of well-being cannot be bought, such as a good family life, friendship, work satisfaction, and satisfaction with the uses of one’s leisure. There is little relation between these

篇四：大学英语四级词汇练习及答案详解(1)

大学英语四级词汇练习及答案详解(1)

1.People’s expectations about the future may have more influence on their sense of well-being than their ________ state does.

A) current

B) initial

C) modern

D) primitive

2.After working all day, he was so tired that he was in no ________ to go to the party with us.

A) taste

B) mood

C) sense

D) emotion

3.There is already ________ clear to show that plants and animals are being affected by climate change.

A) witness

B) certification

C) identity

D) evidence

4.Many women still feel that they are being ________ by a male culture, particularly in the professional services sector.

A) held back

B) held forth

C) held on

D) held out

5.The findings paint a unique picture of the shopping habits of customers, plus their motivation and ________.

A) privileges

B) possibilities

C) possessions

D) preferences

第一题：

current：a. 流通的,现在的,最近的

initial：a. 最初的，开始的;

modern：a. 现代的,时髦的

primitive：a. 原始的,上古的,

expectation:n. 期待,指望,展望

influence：n. 影响，作用;vt. 影响，作用

well-being：n.健康,幸福,福利

第二题：

taste:n. 味道,品味,味觉;v. 尝,体会

mood:n. 心情,气氛

sense:n. 意思，意味，感觉，感知，见识，判断能力，意识，理智;vt. 觉得，意识到 emotion:n. 情感，激动，激情

第三题：

climate:n. 气候

affect：vt. 影响，作用，感动

witness:n. 证人,目击者,证据;v. 目击,作证,证明

certification:n. 出证明

identity:n. 相同,身份,一致

evidence:n. 根据，证据，迹象

第四题：

sector：vt. 部门，区域，(数学)扇区

particularly：ad. 特别，尤其

hold back：，阻碍;退缩;隐瞒

hold forth：大发议论,夸夸其谈

hold on：握紧;等候

hold out：持续;伸出

professional[/w]：n. 专业人才;a. 专业的,职业的

第五题：

finding:n. 发现,发现物

paint:v. 绘，画，给…上油漆，描绘;n. 绘画作品，油漆，颜料

unique:a. 独一无二的,独特的,稀罕的

plus:prep. 加上,加,增加

motivation:n. 动机,刺激,推动

privilege:n. 特权，优惠，恩典，荣幸

possibility: n. 可能性,可能的事

possession:n. 所有,财产,领土

preference:n. 偏爱,优先,喜爱物

1.答案:A

参考译文:人们对于未来的期望,相比于他们当前的状况，可能更多的影响他们的意识。 题目分析:题干为一个简单句，主语部分为People’s expectations about the future，情态动词may，动词have，宾语部分为一个比较结构，more influence on their sense of well-being than their current state does.

考点解析：

expectation:n. 期待,指望,展望 由动词expect派生而来，应联系起来记忆。 influence：n. 影响，作用;vt. 影响，作用

篇五：上海师范大学研一英语翻译题目答案

Unit 1

“Business happens 24/7/365, which means that competition happens 24/7/365, as well,” says Haut. “One way that companies win is by getting ?there? faster, which means that you not only have to mobilize all of the functions that support a business to move quickly, but you have to know how to decide where ?there? is! This creates a requirement not only for people who can act quickly, but for those who can think fast with the courage to act on their convictions. This needs to run throughout an organization and is not exclusive to management.”

“一年365天，一周7天，一天24小时，生意始终在进行，那意味着一年365天，一周7天，一天24小时，竞争也同样在进行，”豪特说，“公司取胜的方法之一就是要更快地到达?目的地?。这就是说，你不仅要把所有能支持公司快速运转的功能都调动起来，而且还得知道如何决定?目的地?是哪里。这样，不仅对那些行动快速的人们，也对那些思维敏捷，并有勇气按自己的想法行事的人们都提出了要求。这需要全公司各部门的运作，而不仅仅是管理部门的工作。”

Unit 2

Zhejiang cuisine is light and exquisite, and is typical of food from along the lower Yangtze River. One famous dish is West Lake Vinegar Fish, which looks pretty and has the delicate refreshing flavors of nature. Many Chinese restaurants in China, as well as other parts of the world, serve this dish, but often the flavor is less authentic compared to that found in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, which has unique access to the fish and water of West Lake.

浙江菜口味清淡，精致玲珑，是长江下游区域菜肴的代表。西湖醋鱼是其中的一道名菜。这道菜鲜美，酥嫩，带着自然的清香。中国乃至世界各地的中餐馆大都能找得到这道菜，但口味往往不及在浙江杭州吃得那般纯正。因为只有杭州拥有来自西湖的鱼和水。

Unit 3

P. L. Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books, put it best when she wrote, “You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for— if you are honest—you have, in fact, no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.” There is plenty for children and adults to enjoy in Rowling?s books, starting with their language. Her prose may be unadorned, but her way with naming people and things reveals a quirky and original talent.

《(欢乐满人间》的作者帕梅拉?林登?特拉弗斯概括得精辟至极。她写到，“你不能把你想象的东西砍掉一部分然后写成一本专给孩子看的书，坦白地说，因为事实上你根本无从知道童年究竟是什么时候结束，而成人期又是什么时候开始的。它们相互连接、浑然一体。”在罗琳的书中，从语言开始，就有足够多的让大人和孩子都喜欢的东西。也许她文风朴实，但是她给人和物取名的方式显示了独特的原创才能。

Unit 4

Much research shows that the quality of care infants receive affects how they later get along with friends, how well they do in school, how they react to new and possibly stressful situations, and how they form and maintain loving relationships as adults. It is for these reasons that people?s early intimate relationships within their family of origin are so critical. Children who are raised in impersonal environments (orphanages, some foster homes, or unloving families) show emotional and social underdevelopment, language and motor skills retardation, and mental health problems.

很多研究发现婴儿获得关爱的质量会影响到他们以后的交友，在学校的表现，如何应对陌生的或可能充满压力的情况，以及他们成年后如何建立并且维系情感连系。正是因为这些原因，人们与家庭成员的早期亲密关系才如此至关重要。在人情冷漠的环境中(如孤儿院，某些寄养家庭，或缺乏关爱的家庭)长大的孩子会出现情感和社会性发育不良，语言和运动技能迟缓，以及精神健康问题。

What attracts individuals to each other in the first place? Many people believe that “there?s one person out there that one is meant for” and that destiny will bring them together. Such beliefs are romantic but unrealistic. Empirical studies show that cultural norms and values, not fate, bring people together. We will never meet millions of potential lovers because they are “filtered out” by formal or informal rules on partner eligibility due to factors such as age, race, distance, social class, religion, sexual orientation, health, or physical appearance.

一开始让人相互吸引的是什么?许多人相信“世上有一个人是你为之而生的”，而且命运会将你俩带到一起。这样的想法很浪漫却不现实。实证研究发现，是文化标准和价值观而非命运，将人们连系在一起。我们错过了成千上万的可能的爱人，因为他们早就被正式的或非正式的挑选理想爱人的准则筛选出局，这些准则包括年龄、种族、地域、社会阶层、宗教、性倾向、健康状况或外表。

Unit 5

Yoga routines can take anywhere from 20 minutes to two or more hours, with one hour being a good time investment to perform a sequence of postures and a meditation. Some yoga routines, depending on the teacher and school, can be as strenuous as the most difficult workout, and some routines merely stretch and align the body while the breath and heart rate are kept slow and steady. Yoga achieves its best results when it is practiced as a daily discipline, and yoga can be a life-long exercise routine, offering deeper and more challenging positions as a practitioner becomes more adept. The basic positions can increase a person?s strength, flexibility and sense of well-being almost immediately, but it can take years to perfect and deepen them, which is an appealing and stimulating aspect of yoga for many.

做瑜伽没有场地的限制，一套瑜伽动作通常需要20分钟到两个小时或者更多的时间，而一个小时左右的时间则是一系列动作和冥想的最佳选择。根据瑜伽师和学派的不同，一些瑜伽动作做起来辛苦异常，而另一些却只是在呼吸和心跳平稳的情况下调整和伸展肢体。每天练习瑜伽会达到最好的效果，随着动作越来越熟练，你就可以加大强度和难度，这样瑜伽就能成为你相伴终生的日常锻炼方式了。练习基础的瑜伽动作即可收到增强力量，改善柔韧性并使人感到舒适的效果，但要想达到完美和高深的境界还是需要日积月累的练习，这也是瑜伽吸引人的地方之一。

Unit 6

I mention these events merely to show that New York is peculiarly constructed to absorb almost anything that comes along (whether a thousand-foot liner out of the East or a twenty-thousand-man convention out of the West) without inflicting the event on its inhabitants; so that every event is, in a sense, optional, and the inhabitant is in the happy position of being able to choose his spectacle and so conserve his soul.

我提到这些，仅仅为了表明纽约城是一座建构奇特的城市，这里发生的事件包罗万象(城东1,000英尺长的班轮也好，城西2万人的集会也罢)，但种种事件却又未被强加到每个居民身上。因此，从某种意义上说，每个事件都有可供选择的余地，居民们大可随心所欲地选择心仪的场景来体味，保护其灵魂免受侵害。

In most metropolises, small and large, the choice is often not with the individual at all. He is thrown to the Lions. The Lions are overwhelming; the event is unavoidable. A cornice falls, that it hits every citizen on the head, every last man in town. I sometimes think that the only event that hits every New Yorker on the head is the annual St. Patrick?s Day parade, which is fairly penetrating—the Irish are a hard race to tune out, there are 500,000 of them in residence, and they have the police force right in the family.

在许多都市里，无论是大都会还是小城市，个人往往没有这种选择的自由。他必然会同狮子会会员们狭路相逢。狮子会会员无处不在，各种事件避无可避。一截房檐从天而降，必然会砸到每个市民头上，无一幸免。我有时想，能够砸到每个纽约人头上的事件恐怕只有一年一度的圣帕特里克节游行，其影响之广，可谓无孔不入——爱尔兰是一个不可小觑的民族，纽约城中居住的爱尔兰人有50万之众，他们还拥有自己的武装力量。

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