生命的呼吸英文ppt教程文件.ppt

The Breath of Life ⑴ 生 命 的 呼 吸 主讲：杨慧敏 刘小梅 制作：刘小梅 杨慧敏 宋艳栋 蒋星润  Science has brought us immense gains in physical well-being, but has often made us neglect the wisdom of the past. 科学在物质健康方面给我们带来了巨大的好处，却也常常使我们忽略了过去的智慧。 When we’re tired and dispirited we turn automatically today to drugs, seeking perhaps stimulant to counteract our fatigue or an antidepressant to raise our mood. In doing so we overlooking a natural pick-me-up which our forebears used with great success to over-come these below-par ills. 今天，当我们累了感到沮丧时，会自动寄托于药物，可能会去寻找刺激来缓解疲劳或者用抗抑郁药物来改善心情。在这种情况下，我们忽视了一种我们的祖先成功克服这些弊端的天然的提神饮料。  It is exceedingly difficult to excuse this oversight , for the importance of breathing must be apparent even to the most unenlightened individuals. We know that humans can go for weeks without food and days without water, but can survive for only minutes without air. 对于这种忽视我们是很难辩解的，因为即使对于最落后的群体，呼吸的重要性仍是很显然的。我们知道人类在没有食物时能支持数周，没有水时能支持数天，但若没有空气，只能存活几分钟。 Every day we need to absorb about 35lb of air ,which is six times our consumption of food and drink. Each cell in our bodies needs its daily drink of oxygen and this it can only get from the air we breathe. 我们每天需要吸收大约35镑的空气，大约是我们每天消耗的食物和水的6倍。我们身体的每一个细胞每天都需要吸氧，而这些氧气只能从我们呼吸的空气中获得。  Many people become shallow breathers because of the tension and physical inactivity of modern life. At rest we use only a fraction of our total lung capacity. If you lead a constantly sedentary way of life your lungs will grow lazy through lack of use and their capacity will fall. 肺功能退化了 许多人因为现代生活的紧张和体能活动不足，而变得呼吸不充分。在休息时，我们只用了整个肺活量的一部分。如果你有长期久坐的生活方式，那么你的肺将由于缺乏使用而变得懒散，并且肺活量也会下降。 Lungs grow lazy Prolonged mental tension can have a similar effect. Most emotional states are accompanied by changes in our pattern of breathing. We gasp with alarm, catch our breath when we’re afraid, yawn when we’re bored, groan when we’re upset and sigh like a furnace when we’re suffering from unrequited love. 持续的精神压力有