英语阅读：WorkandPleasure工作和娱乐.docVIP

美联英语提供：英语阅读：Work and Pleasure工作和娱乐 两分钟做个小测试，看看你的英语水平 /test/kuaisu.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 Work and Pleasure工作和娱乐 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 starting 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 acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: 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 weeks 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 professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend. 要想真正得到幸福与平安，一个人至少应该有两三种业余爱 好，而且必须是真正的爱好。到了晚年才开始说“我对这 个或那个感兴趣”是毫无用处的，这种尝试只会增加精神上的负 担。在与自己曰常工作无关的某种领域中，一个人可以获得渊 博的知识，但是他几乎得不到实在的益处或者放松。喜欢干什 么就干什么是无益的，你得干一行爱一行。广义而言，人类可以 分成三个阶层：劳累而死的人、忧虑而死的人和烦恼而死的人。 对于那些体力劳动者来说，在经过一周精疲力竭的工作之后，周 六下午给他们提供踢足球或者打棒球的机会是没有意义的。对 于政界人士、专业人士或者商人来说,他们已经为棘手的事务操劳或者烦恼了 6天，在周末再请他们为琐事劳神，同样是毫无意义的。 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 reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortunes favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enoug