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Concentrating on real-life situations.

专注于现实生活情境。

Dr Annie Swanepoel, a child psychiatrist, believes that there are ways to incorporate them into western life.

儿童精神科医生安妮·斯瓦内普尔博士认为，有办法将这些做法融入西方生活。

Your social life is defined as “the activities you do with other people, for pleasure, when you are not working.”

社交生活被定义为“你在不工作时为了消遣而与他人一起进行的活动”。

It’s important to have a social life, but what’s right for one person won’t be right for another.

拥有社交生活很重要，但适合一个人的未必适合另一个人。

This is why finding a [balance] in your social life is key.

这就是为什么在社交生活中找到{{2}}是关键。

Other life changes can [trigger] periods of loneliness too, such as retirement, changing jobs or becoming a parent.

其他生活变化也可能{{8}}一段时间的孤独，比如退休、换工作或为人父母。

There are ways to [regain] a social life, but it can feel overwhelming [at first].

有一些办法可以{{9}}社交生活，但{{10}}可能会让人感到不知所措。

On the other hand, it’s [also] possible to have too much of a social life.

另一方面，社交生活{{14}}可能过多。

They may affect work-life balance.

它们可能影响工作与生活的平衡。

“It’s a complete life-changer” when someone stops — or is forced to stop — driving, said former risk manager Anne M. Menke.

前风险管理师安妮·M·门克说，当一个人停止驾驶——或被迫停止驾驶时，“这会彻底改变他的生活”。

Moreover, increased privatization would certainly undercut one of the major reasons why 300 million visitors come to the parks each year: to enjoy nature and get a break from the commercial drumbeat that overwhelms daily life.

此外，加大私有化力度必定会削弱每年3亿游客前来公园的主要原因之一：享受自然，暂时摆脱充斥日常生活的商业喧嚣。

On top of this, they produce value from their extensive educational programs, their positive impact on the climate through carbon sequestration, their contribution to our cultural and artistic life, and of course through tourism.

除此之外，它们还通过广泛的教育项目、通过固碳对气候产生的积极影响、对我们文化艺术生活的贡献，当然还有旅游业创造价值。

endeavor to live a joyful life.

努力过上快乐的生活。

has an impact on today’s cultural life.

对当今的文化生活有影响

Emma Marris’s article is an insult and a disservice to the thousands of passionate people who work tirelessly to improve the lives of animals and protect our planet.

埃玛·马里斯的文章是对成千上万充满热情、为改善动物生活和保护我们的星球而不懈努力的人的侮辱和伤害。

We have all encountered them, in both our personal and professional lives.

我们在个人生活和职业生活中都曾遇到过它们。

In fact, creative problem-solving skills are incredibly useful in daily life, with which you’re more likely to be able to find a solution when problem arises.

事实上，创造性解决问题的能力在日常生活中非常有用，有了这种能力，你在遇到问题时就更有可能找到解决办法。

In the movies and on television, artificial intelligence (AI) is typically depicted as something sinister that will upend our way of life.

在电影和电视中，人工智能（AI）通常被描绘成一种会颠覆我们生活方式的邪恶事物。

When a faculty or department grows from, say, five to 20 members within three or four years, (49) and when the new staff are predominantly young men and women fresh from postgraduate study, they largely define the norms of academic life in that faculty.

当一个学院或系在三四年内从比如说5名成员增加到20名，(49) 并且新进员工主要是刚完成研究生学业的年轻男女时，他们在很大程度上决定了该学院学术生活的规范。

And if the postgraduate student population also grows rapidly and there is loss of a close apprenticeship relationship between faculty members and students, the student culture becomes the chief socializing force for new postgraduate students, with consequences for the intellectual and academic life of the institution — this was seen in America as well as in France, Italy, West Germany, and Japan.

而如果研究生人数也迅速增长，教师和学生之间失去了紧密的师徒关系，学生文化就会成为新研究生社会化的主要力量，并对院校的智识和学术生活产生影响——这种情况在美国以及法国、意大利、西德和日本都出现过。

Much of our social life is like that.”

我们的社交生活很大程度上就是这样。”

But would life be worth living?

但这样的生活还值得过吗？

In fact, the ability to maintain emotional control when [confronted] by stress is one of the most significant of all life’s skills.

事实上，在面对压力时保持情绪控制的能力，是所有生活技能中最重要的技能之一。

Job security or stability was the second most important career goal (work-life balance was number one), followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the greater good.

工作保障或稳定性是第二重要的职业目标（排在第一位的是工作与生活的平衡），其次是献身于某项事业的感觉或为更大的公共利益服务而感到满足。

“Millennials wanted more flexibility in their lives,” notes Tanya Michelsen, Associate Director of YouthSight, a UK-based brand manager that conducts regular 60-day surveys of British youth, in findings that might just as well apply to American youth.

“千禧一代希望生活更具灵活性，”YouthSight的副总监塔尼娅·米歇尔森指出。YouthSight是一家总部位于英国的品牌管理公司，定期对英国青年进行为期60天的调查，其调查结果可能同样适用于美国青年。

think it hard to achieve work-life balance.

认为很难实现工作与生活的平衡。

The lesson is not that you should make your personal life an open book, but rather, when given the option to offer up details about yourself or painstakingly conceal them, you should just be honest.

这其中的教训并不是说你应该把个人生活完全公开，而是说，当你可以选择是透露自己的细节还是费尽心思地隐瞒时，你应该选择诚实。

Find out about their lives and interests beyond the job.

了解他们工作之外的生活和兴趣。

In his 1936 work How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie wrote: “There is only one way... to get the best of an argument — and that is to avoid it.” This aversion to arguments is common, but it depends on a mistaken view of arguments that causes profound problems for our personal and social lives — and in many ways misses the point of arguing in the first place.

戴尔·卡耐基在其1936年的著作《人性的弱点》中写道：“只有一种方法……能在争论中占上风——那就是避免争论。”这种对争论的反感很普遍，但它基于一种对争论的错误看法，这种看法给我们的个人生活和社会生活造成了深刻的问题——而且在很多方面根本没有抓住争论的意义所在。

Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation.

在未来几年里，技术将以或大或小的方式改善社会，然而对于那些生活和事业被自动化颠覆的人来说，这几乎算不上什么安慰。

The great question is who should benefit from the analysis of all the data that our lives now generate.

最大的问题在于，谁应该从对我们如今生活所产生的全部数据的分析中获益。

What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate and finely detailed web of its users’ friendships and social lives.

WhatsApp提供给脸书的，是一张由其用户的友谊和社交生活构成的错综复杂、细致入微的网络。

The product they’re selling is data, and we, the users, convert our lives to data for the benefit of the digital giants.

它们出售的产品是数据，而我们这些用户，为了数字巨头的利益把自己的生活转化成了数据。

Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.

正如一些蚂蚁饲养名为蚜虫的小虫，以获取它们进食时分泌的蜜露一样，谷歌“饲养”我们，以获取我们数字生活所产生的数据。

Tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activities and goals in much more detail, day by day.

《混乱：无序改变生活的力量》一书的作者蒂姆·哈福德提到20世纪80年代初的一项研究，该研究把大学生分成两组：一组被建议制定每月的目标和学习活动；另一组则被要求逐日、更加详细地规划活动和目标。

ways to relieve the tension of busy life.

缓解忙碌生活压力的方法。

And it should: Wasted time is a drag on Americans’ economic and private lives, not to mention infuriating.

而这也理所应当：浪费时间拖累着美国人的经济生活和私人生活，更不用说令人恼火了。

it may risk ruining their intellectual life.

它可能会毁掉他们的精神生活。

Robert F. Kennedy once said that a country’s GDP measures “everything except that which makes life worthwhile.”

罗伯特·F·肯尼迪曾说过，一个国家的GDP衡量的是“除了让生活有价值的东西以外的一切”。

Soon after his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices. He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament. At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter’s eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

父亲出狱后不久，狄更斯在律师事务所找到了一份更好的差事——当跑腿的。他自学速记，后来得到了更好的工作，担任法庭速记员和议会记者。与此同时，狄更斯以记者的眼光记录身边的生活，尤其是任何滑稽或古怪的事情，并向一些不知名的杂志投寄短篇随笔。

A different and not mutually exclusive [prediction] holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort, one [characterized] by purposelessness: Without jobs to give their lives [meaning], people will simply become lazy and depressed.

另一种不同但并不相互排斥的{{3}}认为，未来将是另一种荒原，一种以无目标为{{4}}的荒原：没有工作赋予生活{{5}}，人们只会变得懒惰和沮丧。

In effect, fewer federal funds today are going towards the agency’s other work — such as forest conservation, watershed and cultural resources management, and infrastructure upkeep — that affect the lives of all Americans.

实际上，如今投入该机构其他工作的联邦资金减少了——比如森林保护、流域与文化资源管理以及基础设施维护——而这些工作影响着所有美国人的生活。

But acknowledging fire’s inevitable presence in human life is an attitude crucial to developing the laws, policies, and practices that make it as safe as possible, she says.

但她说，承认火在人类生活中不可避免的存在，这种态度对于制定尽可能保障安全的法律、政策和做法至关重要。

maximize the role of landscape in human life.

最大限度地发挥地貌在人类生活中的作用。

Julie Parks of Grand Rapids Community College points to another key to luring Millennials into manufacturing: a work/life balance.

大急流城社区学院的朱莉·帕克斯指出了吸引千禧一代进入制造业的另一个关键：工作与生活的平衡。

They really want to live their lives,” she says.

他们真的想过自己的生活，”她说。

points out that a work/life balance can attract young people into manufacturing.

指出工作与生活的平衡能吸引年轻人进入制造业。

the political life in today’s Britain.

当今英国的政治生活。

It allows us to have perspective on our lives — the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

它让我们能够正确看待自己的生活——即不过分看重自己、能自嘲、能顾全大局、能看到事情终将好转的能力。

Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful, managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier.

心理健康是创造力的源泉，这种创造力可用于解决问题、化解冲突、美化周围环境、打理家庭生活，或者想出有创意的商业点子或发明，让我们的生活更加便利。

Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful, managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier.

心理健康是创造力的源泉，这种创造力可用于解决问题、化解冲突、美化周围环境、打理家庭生活，或者想出有创意的商业点子或发明，让我们的生活更加便利。

It allows us to see the beauty that surrounds us each moment in nature, in culture, in the flow of our daily lives.

它让我们能够看到每时每刻环绕在我们身边的美——自然之美、文化之美以及日常生活流转之美。

(49) Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfectly ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions.

(49) 虽然心理健康是我们生活的万灵药，但它又极其平常，因为你会发现，它一直都在指引你做出所有艰难的决定。

It has been available even in the most mundane of life situations to show you right from wrong, good from bad, friend from foe.

即使在最平凡的生活情境中，它也一直在帮你分辨是非、好坏和敌友。

(50) As you will come to see, knowing that mental health is always available and knowing to trust it allow us to slow down to the moment and live life happily.

(50) 你终将明白，知道心理健康始终存在并懂得信赖它，能让我们放慢脚步、活在当下，快乐地生活。

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.

调查发现，与年长者相比，刚刚踏上人生道路的年轻人更有可能在工作中优先考虑个人成就感，更有可能相信定期换工作最能推进自己的事业，更喜欢公共服务更多、生活节奏更快的社区，更认同夫妻在结婚或生育之前应当经济上有保障，并坚持认为父母双方都在外工作对孩子最为有利。

From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searing Great Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of American life, from consumer preferences to housing patterns to politics.

从事业到社区和家庭，这些差异表明，在惨痛的大衰退之后，刚刚起步的年轻人正在确立一些优先事项和期望，这些优先事项和期望将日益渗透到美国生活的几乎所有方面，从消费偏好到住房模式再到政治。

Looking back, he is struck that his parents could provide a comfortable life for their children even though neither had completed college when he was young.

回首往事，他惊讶于在他小时候，尽管父母都没有读完大学，却能为孩子们提供舒适的生活。

favor a slower life pace.

喜欢较慢的生活节奏。

reach almost all aspects of American life.

触及美国生活的几乎所有方面。

His parents’ good life has little to do with a college degree.

他父母的好生活与大学学位关系不大。

But keeping sensitive information on these devices is increasingly a requirement of normal life.

但在这些设备上存储敏感信息，日益成为正常生活的必需。

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.

法学教授奥林·科尔将21世纪数字信息的爆炸式增长和易获取性，与20世纪汽车成为几乎必不可少的生活必需品相提并论：当年大法官们必须为乘用车这一新的私人领域制定新规则；如今他们必须理清第四修正案如何适用于数字信息。

It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact.

而是为了追求发行量和影响力而毁掉别人的生活。

This new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivated amid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance.

在关于工作与生活平衡的争论日益激烈之际，这种对个人成就感的新关注有助于保持员工的积极性。

Terms like unplug, offline, life-hack, bandwidth, and capacity are all about setting boundaries between the office and the home.

像“断网”“离线”“生活窍门”“精力”和“能力”这样的词，都是为了在办公室和家庭之间划定界限。

In a workplace that’s fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning, office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work — and how your work defines who you are.

在一个从根本上对你的生活及其意义漠不关心的职场里，职场用语可以帮助你弄清楚你与工作的关系——以及工作如何定义你是谁。

Unfortunately, life is not a bed of roses.

遗憾的是，生活并非一帆风顺。

When our time of mourning is over, we press forward, stronger with a greater understanding and respect for life.

当悲伤的日子过去，我们会继续前进，变得更加坚强，对生活也有了更深的理解和尊重。

You can be easily caught up by life problems that you forget to pause and appreciate the things you have.

你很容易陷入生活的种种问题之中，以至于忘了停下来珍惜自己所拥有的东西。

Only strong people prefer to smile and value their life instead of crying and complaining about something.

只有坚强的人才会选择微笑并珍视生活，而不是哭泣和抱怨。

Try to keep in mind that almost everyone respects and wants to help you if you are trying to make a good change in your life, especially your dearest and nearest people.

请记住，如果你正努力让生活发生好的改变，几乎每个人都会尊重你并愿意帮助你，尤其是你最亲近的人。

This way you devalue your opinion and show that you are incapable of managing your own life.

这样做会贬低你自己的看法，并表明你没有能力掌控自己的生活。

Don’t fear responsibility for your life

不要害怕为自己的人生负责

In order to “change lives for the better” and reduce “dependency”, George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the “upfront work search” scheme.

为了“让生活变得更好”并减少“依赖”，财政大臣乔治·奥斯本推出了“预先求职”计划。

On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

乍一听，这是一位关心社会的财政大臣，力图让人们的生活变得更好，还对一个明显过于纵容的制度进行了“改革”——这个制度对新近失业者找工作要求的努力太少，还在补贴懒惰。

You are now not wanted; you are now excluded from the work environment that offers purpose and structure in your life.

你现在不再被需要；你被排斥在了那个能为你的生活提供目标和秩序的工作环境之外。

A desire to secure a better life for all.

为所有人谋求更好生活的愿望。

Science and technology would cure all the ills of humanity, leading to lives of fulfilment and opportunity for all.

科学技术将治愈人类的一切弊病，让所有人都过上充实而充满机遇的生活。

our desire for lives of fulfillment.

我们对充实生活的渴望。

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the world.

但蒂娜·罗森伯格在她的新书《加入俱乐部》中主张，同伴压力也可以通过她所说的“社会疗法”成为一种积极力量：机构和官员借助群体动力的力量，帮助个人改善生活，甚至可能改善世界。

But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.

但如果学区实际上是对那些因家庭生活复杂而不做作业的学生网开一面，那就危险地接近于暗示需要为贫困儿童降低标准了。

Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls’ lives.

粉色正美：成年女性不记得自己曾如此痴迷这种颜色，可它却充斥着我们小女孩的生活。

Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls’ lives and interests.

环顾四周，人们对女孩的生活和兴趣如此缺乏想象力，令我感到绝望。

cannot influence girls’ lives and interests.

无法影响女孩的生活和兴趣。

His biographies of James Watt, Richard Arkwright and Josiah Wedgwood were held up as beacons to guide the working man through his difficult life.

他为詹姆斯·瓦特、理查德·阿克赖特和约书亚·韦奇伍德写的传记被奉为灯塔，指引劳动者度过艰难的人生。

their need to reflect on their private life.

他们反思私人生活的需要。

It's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I Love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter — nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.

珍妮弗·西尼尔那篇富有洞见、发人深省的杂志封面文章《我爱我的孩子，我恨我的生活》正引发热议，这并不奇怪——没有什么比暗示养育孩子并非一种完全令人满足、丰富人生的经历更能引起人们议论的了。

It's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I Love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter — nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.

珍妮弗·西尼尔那篇富有洞见、发人深省的杂志封面文章《我爱我的孩子，我恨我的生活》正引发热议，这并不奇怪——没有什么比暗示养育孩子并非一种完全令人满足、丰富人生的经历更能引起人们议论的了。

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

不幸福的父母很少会被激得去想自己是否本不该生孩子，而不幸福的无子女者却总被这样的说法所困扰：孩子是世界上唯一最重要的东西，显然他们的痛苦必定直接源于生活中缺了孩子而留下的巨大空洞。

are less likely to be satisfied with their life.

不太可能对生活感到满意。

Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.

生孩子加剧了我们对生活的不满。

If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed.

如果环境总是决定人们的生活和前途，那么人类就永远不会进步。

Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person's early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.

然而，任何一位传记作家都知道，一个人的早年生活及其境遇往往是他所得到的最好的礼物。

In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life — few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers — but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.

在他设计的案例研究住宅中，拉尔夫·拉普森也许错误预测了机械革命对日常生活的影响方式——很少有美国家庭买了直升机，尽管大多数家庭最终都有了干衣机——但他认为自给自足既可取又必然，这一信念得到了广泛认同。

He said that manufacturers of crisps and candies could play a central role in the Change4Life campaign, the centrepiece of government efforts to boost healthy eating and fitness.

他说，薯片和糖果生产商可以在“为生活而改变”运动中发挥核心作用，该运动是政府推动健康饮食和健身工作的重点。

the producers of crisps and candies could contribute significantly to the Change4Life campaign.

薯片和糖果生产商可以为“为生活而改变”运动做出重大贡献。

Because of longer life spans, Americans are also boosting their savings to preserve their nest eggs, the TD Ameritrade study showed, which surveyed 2,000 adults between 40 to 79.

德美利证券的这项研究调查了2,000名40至79岁的成年人，结果显示，由于寿命延长，美国人也在增加储蓄以保住他们的养老金。

Six in 10 “unretires” are increasing their savings in anticipation of a longer life, according to the survey.

调查显示，每10个“不退休者”中就有6人因预期寿命更长而在增加储蓄。

“The most challenging moments in life are getting married, starting a family and ultimately retiring,” Weiss said.

“人生中最具挑战性的时刻是结婚、成家以及最终退休，”韦斯说。

longer life expectancy.

预期寿命延长

This is a skill that will help them all throughout life.

这是一项会让他们终身受益的技能。

They were impressionable kids during the crash of 2008, when many of their parents lost their jobs or their life savings or both.

2008年金融危机时，他们还是易受影响的孩子，当时他们的许多父母失去了工作或毕生积蓄，或者两者都失去了。

It’s almost impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure.

人的一生几乎不可能不经历某种失败。

I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.

我逐渐认识到糟糕论文的各种迹象：比如那种声称每周吃一公斤以上西兰花的人晚年患恶性贫血的可能性是吃得少的人的1.17倍的论文。

Everything he achieved in life was earned the hard way and his success in the literary field was no exception.

他一生所取得的一切都来之不易，他在文学领域的成功也不例外。

These kids are going to be surrounded by computers — in their pockets, in their offices, in their homes — for the rest of their lives.

这些孩子的余生都将被计算机包围——在他们的口袋里、办公室里、家里。

Across generational lines, Americans continue to prize many of the same traditional milestones of a successful life, including getting married, having children, owning a home, and retiring in their sixties.

跨越代际界限，美国人仍然珍视许多相同的成功人生的传统里程碑，包括结婚、生子、拥有住房以及在六十多岁时退休。

But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.

但是，尽管年轻人和老年人在什么构成充实人生的终点线这一点上大体一致，他们提出的抵达路径却截然不同。

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.

调查发现，与年长者相比，刚刚踏上人生道路的年轻人更有可能在工作中优先考虑个人成就感，更有可能相信定期换工作最能推进自己的事业，更喜欢公共服务更多、生活节奏更快的社区，更认同夫妻在结婚或生育之前应当经济上有保障，并坚持认为父母双方都在外工作对孩子最为有利。

From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searing Great Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of American life, from consumer preferences to housing patterns to politics.

从事业到社区和家庭，这些差异表明，在惨痛的大衰退之后，刚刚起步的年轻人正在确立一些优先事项和期望，这些优先事项和期望将日益渗透到美国生活的几乎所有方面，从消费偏好到住房模式再到政治。

Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations.

年轻人和老年人在一个关键点上看法一致：两个群体中的绝大多数人都表示，他们认为如今的年轻人比前几代人更难开启人生。

While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting out today, big majorities in both groups believe those “just getting started in life” face a tougher climb than earlier generations in reaching such signpost achievements as securing a good-paying job, starting a family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing.

尽管年轻人对如今刚起步者的前景比长辈们稍微乐观一些，但两个群体中的大多数人都认为，那些“刚刚开启人生”的人在实现诸如获得一份高薪工作、成家、管理债务和找到负担得起的住房等标志性成就方面，要比前几代人面临更艰难的攀登。

One cross-generation mark of a successful life is ____

跨越代际的成功人生标志之一是____

the old made more life achievements.

老年人取得了更多的人生成就。

We are going through life facing sad experiences.

我们在人生路上会遭遇种种伤心事。

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

音乐对不同的人意味着不同的东西，有时甚至对同一个人在其人生的不同时刻也意味着不同的东西。

Finally, there is perspective, which involves acknowledging that in the grand scheme of life, one lecture really doesn’t matter.

最后是换个角度看问题，即承认从人生的大格局来看，一堂课真的无关紧要。

We aim to be objective, but we cannot escape the context of our unique life experiences.

我们力求客观，却无法摆脱自身独特人生经历的背景。

Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults.

在它结束之前，它很可能会改变一代年轻人的人生轨迹和性格。

The research of Till Von Wachter, the economist at Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise would have been if they had graduated in better times; it is the masses beneath them that are left behind.

哥伦比亚大学经济学家蒂尔·冯·瓦赫特的研究表明，并非所有在衰退期毕业的人都会人生机遇黯淡：拥有名校学位的人能相当快地追赶上来，达到他们在经济较好时期毕业本应达到的水平；被甩在后面的是他们之下的普通大众。

see their life chances as dimmed as the others’.

人生机遇和其他人一样黯淡。

From the earliest days of the Renaissance, the writing of history meant recounting the exemplary lives of great men.

从文艺复兴最早期起，书写历史就意味着讲述伟人的模范人生。

By contrast, the Victorian author Samuel Smiles wrote Self-Help as a catalogue of the worthy lives of engineers, industrialists and explorers.

相比之下，维多利亚时代的作家塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯写了《自助》一书，记录了工程师、实业家和探险家们可敬的人生。

This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte.

在托马斯·卡莱尔看来，这一切都有点资产阶级味道，他的传记聚焦于马丁·路德、奥利弗·克伦威尔和拿破仑·波拿巴这些真正英雄的人生。

These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals.

这些划时代的人物代表着难以效仿的人生，但人们应承认他们拥有高于凡人的权威。

focused on epochal figures whose lives were hard to imitate.

聚焦于人生难以效仿的划时代人物。

depicted the worthy lives of engineers, industrialists and explorers.

描写了工程师、实业家和探险家们可敬的人生。

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, launched this year, takes an unrepresentative view of what the life sciences include.

今年设立的生命科学突破奖对生命科学所涵盖的范围持有一种不具代表性的看法。

(50) One could interpret much of the work of Beethoven by saying that suffering is inevitable, but the courage to fight it renders life worth living.

(50) 贝多芬的大部分作品可以这样解读：苦难不可避免，但与之抗争的勇气让生命值得一过。

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call forth the spirit of plant and animal life, if only symbolically, through a clumplike arrangement of materials, an introduction of colors, small pools of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

在纽约市的大多数无家可归者花园里，真正种植植物是不可行的，但即便如此，这些布置似乎常常代表着一种尝试，试图通过将材料成簇排列、引入色彩、设置小水池以及频繁摆放花瓣、树叶和毛绒动物等方式，唤起动植物的生命精神，哪怕只是象征性的。

In them we can see biophilia — a yearning for contact with nonhuman life — assuming uncanny representational forms.

在它们身上，我们可以看到亲生命性——一种渴望与非人类生命接触的情感——呈现出种种奇异的表现形式。

“The community mental health team saved my life.

“社区心理健康小组救了我的命。

[To] Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G.I. Joe was any American soldier, [at that point] the most important person in their lives.

对于埃及、法国以及另外十几个国家来说，大兵乔就是任何一个美国士兵，在那个时候是他们生命中最重要的人。