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英语八级汉译英练习第11期:当生活中的不确定感向你袭来 【中文原文】 我的一个好朋友最近接受了白血病测试。她对我说，最令人痛苦的折磨就是苦苦等待测试结果的那一周时间。我朋友说，她可能会学着直面坏结果。但真正让人煎熬焦虑的是那种茫然的感觉。 孟克 Edvard Munch 的名画《呐喊》哈佛大学心理学家吉尔伯特 Daniel Gilbert 不久前在《纽约时报》 New York Times 的专栏中写道，不知道要发生什么坏事比知道什么坏事要发生的感觉更糟。我们大多数人之所以会夜不能寐、抽烟发泄，并不是因为道琼斯指数要再跌1000点，而是因为我们不知道道指会不会下跌不确定的感觉比不确定的事情本身更折磨人。 【英文译文】 Coping With the Certainty of Uncertainty A close friend of mine recently underwent tests for leukemia. The most agonizing part of the ordeal, she said, was the week-long wait for the test results. A bad outcome she could learn to cope with, my friend said. It was the not knowing, the uncertainty, that was so difficult. People feel worse when something bad might occur than when something bad will occur, wrote Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert in a recent New York Times op-ed. Most of us arent losing sleep and sucking down Marlboros because the Dow is going to fall another thousand points, but because we dont know whether it will fall or not ─ and human beings find uncertainty more painful than the things theyre uncertain about. 英语八级汉译英第12期:婚姻使人肥？【中文原文】 我和丈夫结婚已经五年了，从我们的腰围就能看出来。虽然我们俩都还算天生苗条，也尽量定期健身，但自打结婚生子以来我们还是无可避免地长胖了一点。（事实上，我那个还在学步的孩子这段时间最喜欢的活动就是揪着我的肚皮狂笑。真是多谢了。） 刊登在《肥胖》 Obesity 杂志和《商业周刊》网站 BusinessW 的新研究发现，已婚夫妇变得肥胖的机率是正在恋爱但尚未结婚或同居的人的两倍。结婚时间越长，体重增加、变得肥胖的风险就越大。 北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 的研究人员说，两个人生活在一起就会一同行动，比如说一块儿吃饭看电视。科学家们还强调，婚姻会带来许多健康方面的好处，比如说少抽烟，死亡率也会降低。 【英文译文】 Does Marriage Make You Fat? My husband and I have been married for five years and you can tell by our waistlines. While were both naturally pretty slim and try to exercise somewhat regularly, weve definitely put on a few pounds since we exchanged vows thats us in the picture and since we had our son. In fact, my toddlers favorite activity these days is squeezing my belly and giggling hysterically. Thanks. New research, published in the journal Obesity and written about at BusinessW, found that married couples are twice as likely to become obese as people in romant