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4.5 Comfort and Discomfort One of the goals of the environmental engineer and architect is to ensure comfortable conditions in a building.Thermal pleasure can only be achieved locally over part of the body or temporarily in the context of a situation which is in itself uncomfortable.We are left simply with the idea of comfort as a lack of discomfort;this may seem an uninspiring definition,but nevertheless it presents a real practical challenge.环境工程师和建筑工程师的目标之一就是确保一栋建筑物具有舒适的环境。热愉悦性只有身体的局部才能感觉到，或者是在一本身并不舒适的环境下暂时达到。一连几个小时连续的热预约是不可能的，我们认为舒适就是只要不感到不舒适就可以了。这好像是一个很平常的定义，但是不管怎么说，它提出了一个现实的挑战。 General thermal discomfort will be felt if a person is either too hot or too cold.In addition there are several potential sources of local discomfort ,such as cold feet or draughts .假如一个人觉得太热或者太冷，通常就会觉得热不舒适。除此之外，还有几个造成不舒适的来源，比如说脚冷或者吹风。 Any guide to comfort must relate these forms of discomfort to the physical variables of the environment ,so that a permissible range of the variables may be recommended .It is conventional to treat overall thermal discomfort in terms of ,thermal sensation .任何有关热舒适性的手册必须把环境的物理变量与这些不太舒适的形式联系起来，所以应当推荐一个这些变量的允许值范围。通常用术语热感觉来评价总的热不舒适性。 For other forms of discomfort it is not possible to base the definition of discomfort simply on a scale of overall thermal sensation .It is possible to be thermally neutral and so want the temperature neither raised nor lowered,yet still be uncomfortable because of some non-Uniformity in me environment,such as a draught or radiant asymmetry.The most direct way of finding if someone is uncomfortable is simply to ask him.Usually the subject is asked to make a decision as to whether he is comfortable to uncomfortable，or whether he finds the thermal conditions acceptable or uncomfortable.Different people may be expected to become uncomfortable at different levels of external stress,so if the proportion of people voting uncomfortable at different levels of external stress，so if the proportion of people voting uncomfortable is