英音听力材料 2016-10-22

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With autumn well and truly here, it’s easy enough to look upon the darkening days ahead with a sense of dread. Summer feels like a distant memory, and unlike the recently departed swallows, most of us can’t just up and leave the prospect of winter behind.

So perhaps we can learn something from the Danes this year, who are often cited as being among the happiest people on Earth, despite the cruelty of their perishing winters.

The Danish concept of hygge is all over the lifestyle pages of our media this autumn, perhaps for good reason - as hygge is all about a way of living more fully - more wonderfully, in fact! - from within the weather, the darkness, and whatever’s before us, instead of forlornly dreaming of better days to come, and wishing we were somewhere else instead.

With hygge, while there’s no direct translation into English, it’s abou