wonder简单

A children’s author and poet who had become a keen amateur photographer, Peters watched the butterflies and idly wondered if he could capture them in flight. It swiftly became an obsession as he recovered from a successful operation to remove the cancer. In recent summers, he has travelled the length and breadth of Britain to photograph all 58 native species of butterfly. Now the fruits of those summers have been published in a beautiful new book.

彼得斯是一位儿童作家和诗人，后来成了一名热心的业余摄影师。他看着那些蝴蝶，随意地想自己能否拍下它们飞行的样子。在成功切除癌症的手术后康复期间，这个念头很快变成了一种痴迷。最近几个夏天，他走遍英国各地，拍摄了全部58种本土蝴蝶。如今，这几个夏天的成果已汇编成一本精美的新书出版。

So, instead of saying, “Martha, our current slogan is confusing and should be updated,” you could try, “Martha raises a great point that our current slogan has a long history for our stakeholders, but I wonder if we might be able to brainstorm a tagline that could build on that — and be clearer for new customers.”

所以，与其说“玛莎，我们现在的口号令人困惑，应该更新了”，你不妨试着说：“玛莎提出了很好的一点，我们现在的口号对利益相关者来说有着悠久的历史，但我想知道我们能否集思广益，在此基础上想出一句标语——并且让新客户更容易理解。”

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。

But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

但耐人寻味的是，我们每周看到的那些毫无压力、增添幸福的为人父母的形象，是否在某种微小的、潜意识的层面上加深了我们对实际育儿经历的不满，就像我们内心有一小部分曾希望剪个“瑞秋头”就能让自己看起来有那么一点像詹妮弗·安妮斯顿一样。

And he was one of the founders of a movement called Romanticism, which celebrated the wonders of the natural world.

他还是一场名为浪漫主义的运动的创始人之一，这场运动歌颂自然界的奇妙。

The [decision] to stop weighing myself every day has done wonders for my overall health, fitness and well-being.

不再每天称体重的决定对我的整体健康、体能和幸福感产生了奇效。

In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing?

在一个如此执着地颂扬生儿育女的社会里，承认自己后悔生孩子就等同于承认自己支持虐杀小猫，这有什么奇怪的呢？

Take a moment or two to wonder at those marvels.

花一点时间惊叹一下这些奇迹吧。