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歌手名：新概念第四册
歌曲名：46
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Lesson 46 Hobbies
First listen and then answer the answer the following question.
Who, according to the author,
are ＇Fortune＇s favoured children＇?
A gifted Ameri-can psychologist has said,
＇Worry is a sp-asm of the emotion;
the mind catches hold of someth-ing
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 convul-sive grasp.
And if this something else is rightly chosen,
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 be-gins. The cult-ivation 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 underta-ken in a day
or swiftly imp-rovised 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 vivify-ing fruits are to be at hand when needed.
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 st-arting 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 acq-uire great know-ledge 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 speak-ing,human beings
may be divided into three cla-sses:
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 profess-ional or busine-ss man,
who has been working or worrying about serious things
for six day, to work or worry
about trifling things at the weekend.
As for the unfo-rtunate 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 ru-sh frantically round from place to place,
trying to escape from avenging oredom
by mere clatter and motion.
For them disci-pline in one form or another
is the most hop-eful path.
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 rew-ard,
mot only the means of sustenance,
but a keen appe-tite for pleas-ure even in its simplest
and most modest forms. But Fort-une＇s favoured children
belong to the second class.Their life is a natural harmony.
For them the working hours are never long enough.
Ach 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 wh-ose workis their plea-sure are those
who most need the means of banishing it
at intervals from their minds.