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Winston Churchill
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 week’s 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.
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 Fortune’s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
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apple_edu (2008-9-02 14:56:01)
1. 使（病情）更恶化，使（疾病、痛苦等）加剧；加重；使更坏
He has been charged with aggravated assault.
他因严重伤害他人罪已被起诉。
2. [口语] 激怒，触怒；使恼火
e.g.
加剧紧张局势
aggravate tension
→ 加剧 加重危机
aggravate the crisis
→ 加重
industrious adj. 1.
原义：灵巧的，伶俐的，聪明的；熟练的
2.
努力工作的；勤劳的，勤奋的 e.g. 勤劳勇敢的中国人民
the valiant and industrious Chinese people 勤劳勇敢的人民
a brave and industrious people 勤劳智慧的人民
the industrious and ingenious people 勤俭过日子
live industriously and frugally; lead an industrious and thrifty life
compensation n. 1. (money) 赔偿金
2. [c/u] [fig] (for disappointment etc) 补偿
3. [c/u] (adjustment) 补偿
compensation for sth
因某事而获得的赔偿金
4. [fig] (for disappointment etc) 因某事而得到的补偿 in compensation (for sth)
作为(某事的)赔偿金 e.g. compensation for sth
因某事而获得的赔偿金 in compensation (for sth)
作为(某事的)赔偿金 I have received no compensation as yet 等价有偿的原则
principle of making compensation for equal value 损坏东西要赔，是我们解放军的老规矩。
To pay compensation for damage done is an old rule in our PLA.
apple_edu (2008-9-02 14:57:46)
好像不是“所见所得”，所以看起来还是乱~~~~~
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当复习也行呀`
我总觉的听这男的声音`
我有点难受`~
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