family to support, Jankowski‘s thoughts turned to escape.―就好像我迎头撞上一面砖墙，整个人生都被击得粉碎，‖他说。经济来源耗尽，又有一个家庭需要供养，简可夫斯基开始想逃避。
17、One morning, while in a run,he just kept going. After jogging westward for two hours, he staggered back home. ―It finally dawned on me that I couldn‘t run away from my troubles. The only thing that made sense was to face up to my situation,‖ he says. ―Admitting failure was the toughest part but I had to before I could get on with my life.‖一天早上，在跑步的时候，他一直往前跑。在向西慢跑了两个小时之后，他步履蹒跚地回到家。―我终于明白不能逃离我的困境。唯一明智的事就是勇敢面对我的现状，‖他说，―承认失败是困难的，但要想继续生活我必须得这么做。‖
18、Get Out and Do! After a few weeks, I urge people recovering from loss to get back into a routine,‖says psychiatrist and Boston University professor Bessel A.van der Kolk. ―It‘s important to force yourself to concentrate on things other than your hurt.‖ Cinsider these activities:走出门，做点事。―几周之后，我要求那些从打击中复原的人回到日常生活中去，‖精神病医师，波士顿大学教授贝瑟?A?凡?库克说，―强迫自己把注意力集中到别的事情，而不是所受的伤害上，这一点至关重要。‖考虑以下活动：
19、Join a support group. Once you‘ve made the decision to ―get on with life,‖ you‘ll need someone to talk to –and the most effective kind of conversation can be with someone else who has undergone an ordeal.加入一个援助团体。一旦你决心―继续生活‖，你会需要向人倾诉，最有效的是和其他有过痛苦经历的人交谈。
20、Read. When you can focus after the initial shock, reading, especially selfhelp books, can offer inspiration as well as relaxation.阅读。经历过最初的震惊之后，如果注意力可以集中，那就开始读书，尤其是有关自助的书，这将让你放松，同时也让你感到鼓舞。
21、Keep a journal. Many find comfort in creating an ongoing record of their experiences. At best it can serve as a kind of self-therapy.记日记。很多人发现纪录每天的经历让人感到安慰。日记甚至能起到自我治疗的作用。
22、Plan events. The idea that there are things to look forward to reinforces that you are forging ahead into a fresh future. Schedule that trip you‘ve been postponing.做事有计划。有期待的事情，这一想法能增强你迈向全新未来的信息。将你过去推迟了的旅行重新写进时间表。 23、Learn new skills. Take a course at a community college, or take up a new hobby or sport. You have a new life ahead; any new skill will complement it.学习新的技术。在社区大学选修一门课，或是开始新的爱好或者运动。有全新的生活等着你，而任何新的技术都将使它更充实。
24、Reward yourself. During highly stressful times, even the simplest daily daily chores-getting up, showering, fixing something to eat- can seem daunting. Consider every accomplishment, no matter how small, a victory to be rewarded.奖励自己。在强压力之下，即使是最简单的日常琐事，如起床、洗澡，弄东西吃，都能使人气馁。每完成一件事，不管多么微小，都把它看作是一个值得稿劳自己的成就。
25、Exercise. Physical activity can be especially therapeutic. Therese Gump of Chicago felt confused and adrift after her21-years-old son committed suicide. A friend talked her into taking a jazzercize class. ―It was just mindless stretching and bouncing to music.‖ Gump says, ―but it made me feel better physically, and when you head and your troubles,‖ Aronoff explains, ―and it allows you to experience your body with your two feet on the ground.‖锻炼。体育锻炼尤其具有治疗作用。芝加哥的西瑞丝?坎普在她21岁儿子自杀后感到茫然不知所措。一个朋友说服她参加了一个爵士锻炼培训班。―只是随着音乐不动脑筋地伸伸手脚和蹦蹦跳跳，‖坎普说，―但它却使我感到身体更棒，当你感觉身体更棒的时候你心理上也会感觉更好。‖―锻炼使你忘却自我和身边的麻烦，‖阿若诺夫解释说，―并能让你感到踏实。‖
26、Be Patient with Yourself. People often ask. ―When will this terrible pain stop?‖ Experts resist being pinned down to time frames. ―Roughly, it‘s a minimum of six months before you even start to feel better,‖ says Aronoff. ―And it can be as long as a year, possibly two. A lot depends on disposition, the support within your environment, and if you get help and work on it.‖对自己有耐心。人们常说，―什么时候这种可怕的痛苦才会结束？‖专家门反对时间期限的限制。―大体上，你少则需要6个月才能开始感觉好点，‖阿若诺夫说。―也有可能长达一年，或是两年。这很大程度上取决于你的性格、周围亲友的支持、以及是否得到帮助并借此战胜痛苦。
27、So,be easy on yourself. Recongnize that you‘ll need time, and that your own pace of recovery may not fit with that of others. Congratulate yourself at each step through grief: I‘m still here, I‘ve made it this far!因此，对自己宽容些。认识到你将需要一定的时间，而且你自己的康复节奏可能和别人不一样。在走出悲痛中每前进一步都要祝贺自己：―我还活着，我已经撑到现在了。‖
28、Sailing is a slow business. I made it to Florida in five weeks. In attempting to‖run away,‖ I‘d embarked on a trip that gave me a structure, a daily outdoor routine requiring physical exertion, and plenty of time. I was still hurting, but by the time I anchored in Miami, I was ready to try again.At what, I wasn‘t sure.航行是个慢活，我用了5周才抵达佛罗里达。原本试图―一走了之‖的我踏上一段旅途。这段旅途让我重新组织生活，培养了每天的生活规律，要求付出在户外的体力以及大量的时间。我的心依然在痛，但是等我到达迈阿密时，我已作好再次尝试的准备。尝试什么，我还没确定。
29、―Why not get back to writing-to what you were trained for?‖ said my dad over the phone. He was right. And here I am now, writing to you. It feels good to be back.―何不回到写作？回到你以前受过专门培训的写作嘛！‖爸爸在电话那头说。他是对的。现在我就在为你而写。能回到的感觉真好。
四、What Is Happiness?
1、The right to pursue happiness is issued to Americans with their birth cetificates, but no one seems quite which way it ran. It may be we are issued a hunting license but offered no game. Jonathan Swift seemed to being welldeceived.‖ The felicty of being ―a fool among knaves.‖ For Swift say society as Vanity Fair, the land of false goals.自从呱呱坠地，美国人就被赋予了追求幸福的权利，但似乎没人确信幸福究竟在哪里。正如它发给我们狩猎证，却不给我们提供猎物。乔纳森?斯威福特似乎持此观点，他抨击幸福的想法是―鬼迷心窍的上当，‖是―骗子堆中的傻瓜‖的自鸣得意。因为他视社会为虚妄目标聚集的名利场。
2、It is, of course, un-American to think in terms of fools and knaves. We do, however, seem to be dedicated to the idea of buying our way to happiness. We shall all have made it to heaven when we possess enough.当然用傻子、骗子这样的字眼来形容是不合美国的人的风俗习惯的，然后我们似乎确实沉溺于用金钱购买幸福的想法：只要有足够的钱，我们百年后就能上天堂。
3、And at the same time the forces of American commercialism are hugely dedicated to making us deliberately unhappy. Advertising is one of our major industries, and advertising is one of our major industries, and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them-and to create them faster than any man‘s budget can satisfy them. For that matter, our whole economy is based on a dedicated insatiability. We are taught that to possess is to be happy, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. It was only a few years ago, to cite a single example, that car dealers across the country were flying banners that read ―You Auto Buy Now.‖ There were calling upon Americans, as an act approaching patriotism, to buy at once, with money they did not have. Automobiles they did not really need, and which they would be required to grow tired of by the time the next year‘s models were released.同时，美国的商业主义却又殚精竟虑故意使我们得不到幸福。广告是我们的支柱产业之一，其存在不是为了满足欲望。而是为了制造欲望——其制造速度之快，使我们的腰包应接不暇。就此而言，我们的整个经济是基于一种无法自拔的贪求无厌。我们受到的教育是―占有却为幸福‖，然后我们就被迫产生贪欲。我们甚至被告知欲望是我们的义务。引用一个简单的例子为证：仅仅几年前，全国的汽车销售商还打着―你应该立即购买汽车‖的横幅。他们号召美国人民：作为一种爱国主义行为，他们应该立即按揭购买他们并不真正需要的汽车，并且在次年新款汽车发布后他们会对原来这些汽车心生厌倦。
4、Or look at any of the women‘s magazines. There, as Bernard De Voto once pointed out, advertising begains as poetry in the front pages and ends as pharmacopoeia and therapy in the back page. The poetry of the front matter is the dream of perfect beauty. This is the baby skin that must be hers. These, the flawless teeth. This, the perfumed breath she must exhale. This, the sixteen-year-old figure she must display she must display at forty, at fifty, at sixty, and forever.或者任意浏览一本女性杂志。正如伯尔纳德?德?渥托曾经指出的那样，这些杂志开头几页的广告诗情画意，而最后则以类似药典和治疗手册结尾。前者是完美美女的梦想：这该是她婴儿般的股肤，这些是她无瑕的牙齿，这该是她呼出的香气，这该是她能保持到40、50、60岁甚至永远的16岁少女般的身材。
5、Once past the vaguely uplifting fiction and feature articles, the reader finds the other face of the dream in the back matter. This is the harness into which Mother must strap herself in order to display that perfect figure. These, the chin straps she must sleep in. This is the slave that restores all, this is her laxative, these are the tablets that melt away fat, these are the hormones of perceptual youth, these are the stockings that hide varicose veins.一旦读完这些隐约让人振奋的小说和专题文章，读者在杂志最后几页就会发现梦想的真相：这是家庭主妇必须得系上的背带，以展现其完美身材。这些是她睡觉时必须带上的颚带。这是可以恢复青春的药剂和装备，这是她减肥用的缓泻药，这些是消化脂肪的药片，这些是使外表年轻的荷尔蒙，这些是掩盖静脉曲张的长袜。
6、Obviously no half-sane person can be completely persuaded either by such poetry or by such poetry or by such pharmacopoeia and orthopedics. Yet someone is obviously trying to buy the dream as offered and spending billions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers, but what is trying to buy?显而易见，即使心智不健全的人也不会完全相信这些诗境或是这些药典和矫正术。然后有人显然正在竭力购买这些广告所兜的美梦，并为此每年耗资数十亿美元。这种幸福市场无疑不会无人问津，但他们购买的究竟是什么呢？ 7、The idea ―happiness,‖ to be sure, will not sit still for easy definition: the best one can do is to try to set some extremes to the idea and then work in toward the middle. To think of happiness as acquisitive and competitive will do to set the materialistic extreme. To think of it as the idea one senses in, say, a holy man of India will do to set the spiritual extreme. The holy man‘s idea of happiness is in needing nothing from outside himself. In wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. He sits immobile, rapt in contemplation, free even of his own body. Or nearly free of it. If devout admirers bring him food he eats it; if not, he starves indifferently. Why beconcerned? What is physical is an illusion to him. Contemplation is his joy and he achieves it through afantastically demanding discipline, the accomplishment of which is itself a joy within him.诚然，给―幸福‖这一概念下定义远非易事：最好是尽量为这一概念确立一些极限，然后将两者折中。将幸福视为物质上的拥有和相互攀比，这就确立了其物质上的极限。将其视为一个人（比如印度的圣人）所感知的信念，则是确立了其精神上的极限。圣人的幸福是无需身外之物。无欲则无求。他静坐不动，陷入冥思，甚至脱离或者说近乎脱离自己的肉体。如果有虔诚的信徒带来食物，他硬听； 如果没有，他便淡然地饿着。有什么好牵挂的呢？对他而言，物质世界只是虚幻。宴想是他的极乐，而他通过修行来实现。这种修行要求之高，让人难以置信，其完成本身就是他内心的一种极乐。
8、Is he a happy man? Perhaps his happiness is only another sort of illusion.But who can take it from him? And who will dare say it is more illusory than happiness on the installment plan?他幸福吗？或许他的幸福只是另一种虚幻。但谁又能将幸福从他身边夺走呢？又有谁敢说这种幸福比分期付款计划中得到的幸福更缥缈呢？
9、But, perhaps because I am Western, I doubt such catatonic happiness,as I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market. What is certain is that his way of happiness would be torture to almost any Western man. Yet these extremes will still serve to frame the area within all of us and must find some sort of balance. Thoreau-a creature of both Eastern and Western thought-had his own firm sense of that balance.His aim was to save on the low levels in order to spend on the high.然而，或许因为我是西方人，我对这种令人精神紧张的幸福持怀疑态度，正如我怀疑幸福市场的梦幻一样。可以确信，他这种幸福方式对几乎任何一个西方人而言都是一种折磨。尽管如此，我们仍然可以利用这些极限来划定幸福的范畴，在这一范畴内每个人都得找到某种平衡。梭罗，一个东西思想交融的人物，对这种平衡有他自己的坚定信念。他的目标是在低层次节约，在高层次上付出。
10、Posssession for its own sake or in competiton with the rest of the neighborhood would have been Thoureau‘s idea of the low levels. The active discipline of heightening one‘s perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high, What he saved from the low was time and effort he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he would put into feeding himself only as much effort as would keep him functioning for more important efforts.梭罗所理解的―低层次‖，即为自己而去拥有，或与邻里明争暗斗而致拥有。他心目中的―高层次‖，则是这样一种积极的人生戒律，即要使自己对自己界永恒之物的感悟臻于完美。对于他从低层次上节省下来的时间和精力，他可将其致力于对高层次的追求。勿庸置疑，梭罗不赞成忍饥挨饿，但他在膳食方面投入的精力仅果腹而已，只要可以确保他能去从事更为重要的事务即可。
11、Effort is the gist of it. There is no happiness except as we take on life-engaging difficulties. Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfactions we get from a lifetime depend on how hign we choose our difficulties.Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when he spoke of ―The pleasure of taking pains.‖ The martal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless.殚精竭虑，全力以赴，便是问题的精髓所在。除非我们愿意直面那些需要我们全身心投入的艰难困苦，否则便不会有幸福可言。正如叶芝所言，除却某些不可能的情形，我们人生中所获取的满足皆取决于我们在多高的境界中选择我们所愿意面对的艰难困苦。当罗伯特?弗罗斯特言及―以苦为乐‖时，他内心所思，大体如此。商业广告中所宣扬的寻种幸福观，其致使的缺陷就在于它宣称，一切幸福皆唾手可得，不费吹灰之力。
12、We demand difficulty even in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. A game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are an arbitrary imposition of dificulty. When the spoilsport ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the rules. It is easier to win at chess if you are free,at your pleasure, to change the wholly arbitrary rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules. No difficulty, no fun.即使于游戏之中，我们也需要有艰难困苦。之所以需要它，是因为若没有困难，便断无游戏可言。游戏即是这样一种方式，为了享受其中的情趣而人为地使事情变得不那么轻而易举。游戏中的种种规则，便是将困难武断地强加于人。有的人将情趣摧毁殆尽，总是因为他拒不按游戏规则行事而使然。这犹如下棋，如果你随心所欲、心血来潮全然武断地去更改那些游戏规则、去赢棋当然会更加容易。但下棋的情趣则在于应在规则的限定范围内赢取胜利。一言以蔽之，没有艰难，断无情趣。
13、The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem too often to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are playing,but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anyting at all. The Western weakness may be in the illusion that happiness can be bought. Perhaps the Eastern weakness is in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect (therefore static ) happiness.幸福市场上的买卖双方似乎大都体会不到挑战困难的乐趣。天知道他们在玩些什么，但似乎不外乎那些无聊的游戏。我猜印度的圣人在我们看来有些无聊，因为他似乎拒绝玩任何游戏。西方人的弱点在于他们幻想幸福可以买到。或许东方人的弱点在于他们认为存在产丰一种完美的（因而也是静止的）幸福。
14、Happiness is never more than partial. There are no pure states of mankind. Whatever else happiness may be, it is neither in having nor in being, but in becoming. What the Founding Fathers declared for us as inherent right,we should do well to remember, was not happiness but the pursuit of happiness market, is the cardinal fact that happiness is in the pursuit itself, in the meaningful pursuit of what is life-engaging and life-revealing, which is to say, in the idea of becoming. A nation is not measured by what it possesses or wants to possess, but by what it wants to become.从来就没有过完美的幸福。人类社会不存在尽善尽美。无论人们怎样界定何谓幸福，它既不在于拥有也不在于实现，而在于追求的过程。我们应该牢记：开国元勋们为我们所宣布的与生俱来的权利，不是享受幸福而是追求幸福。假如他们当初预见到现在出现的幸福市场，他们就会强调指出这样一个基本事实：幸福在于为之奋斗的过程，在于我们终生为之努力并从中获得启迪的事业，也就是说在于追求。对于一个民族的评价不是看它拥有什么或是幸福拥有什么，而是看它想要追求什么。
15、By all means let the happiness-market sell us minor satisfactions and even minor follies so long as we keep them in scale and buy them out of spiritual change. I am no customer for either Puritanism or asceticism. But drop any real spiritual capital at those bazaars, and what you come to will be your own poorhouse.当然，只要我们掌握好一个度，或者只作为一种精神调节，不妨从幸福市场买点满足感甚至可以花钱买点愚蠢的东西。我既不信奉清教徒的生活准则也不赞面禁欲主义。但如果我们在这些市场上放弃任何真正意义上的精神财富，那么到头来我们只能是一无所有。
五、Remote Control
1、Recently the Washington Post printed an article explaining how the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane.最近《华盛顿邮报》刊登了一篇文章，解释家用电器制造商是如何谋划把消费者逼疯的。
2、Of course they don‘t say they want to drive us insane. What they say they want to do is have us live in homes where ―all appliances are on the Internet, sharing information‖and appliances will be ―smarter than most of their owners.‖ For example, the article states, you could have a home where the dishwasher ―can be turned on from the office‖and the refrigerator ―knows when it‘s out of milk‖ and the bathroom scale ―transmits your weight to the gym.‖当然制造商们并没有说他们想把我们逼疯，他们说他们想做的是让我们生活在―所有电器通过互联网实现信息共享‖的住宅里。而这些电器比―大多数主人聪明得多‖。例如，文章说到你可以拥有这样一个家：洗碗机―可以从你办公室启动‖、电冰箱―知道何时牛奶喝完了‖、浴室磅秤可以―把你的体重传送到健身房‖。
3、I frankly wonder whether the appliance manufacturers, with all due respect, have been smoking crack. I mean, did they ever stop to ask themselves why a consumer, after loading a dishwasher, would go to the office to start it? Would there be some kind of career benefit?恕我直言，我满怀敬意地想知道电器制造商们是不是晕了头。我的意思是他们是否该停下来问问自己：为什么消费者把碗碟放进洗碗机后，要跑到办公室去启动它？难道这样可以在职场上获益吗？
YOUR BOSS: What are you doing? 老板：你在干什么？
YOU ( tapping computer keyboard ): I‘m starting my dishwasher! 你（敲打键盘）：我正在启动我家的洗碗机！ YOUR BOSS: That‘s the kind of productivity we need around here! 老板：这恰恰是我们这儿需要的工作效率。 YOU: Now I‘m flushing the upstairs toilet! 你：我现在就冲洗楼上厕所！
Listen, appliance manufacturers: We don‘t need a dishwaher that we can communicate with from afar. If you want to improve our dishwashers, give us one that senses when people leave dirty on the kitchen counter, and shouts at them: ―Put those dishes in the dishwasher rignt now or I‘ll leak all over your shoes!‖电器制造商们听好：我们不需要从远处来启动洗碗机。如果你想改进洗碗机，那就给我们这样一台：当人们把脏碗放在碗柜上时，洗碗机能够感应并且大声冲人喊：―立刻把碗放进来，不然我就会漏水把你鞋子弄湿！‖
Likewise, we don‘t need a refrigerator that knows when it‘s out of milk. We alrealy have a foolproof system for determining if we‘re out of milk. We ask our wife. What we could use is a refrigerator that refuses to let us open its door when it senses that we are about to consume our fourth Jell-O Pudding Snack in two hours.
同样，我们也不需要电冰箱知道什么时候没有牛奶。我们已经有了一个傻瓜也明白的万无一失的方法来确定牛奶是否喝完：我们可以问一下妻子。我们需要的是这样一台电冰箱：当它意识到我们要在两小时内就要把第四个吉露果子冻布丁吃完时，冰箱门就再也打不开了。
As for a scale that transmits our weight to the gym: Are they nuts? We don‘t want our weight transmitted to our own eyeballs! What if the gym decided to trainsmit our weight to all these other appliances on the Internet? What if, God forbid, our refrigerator found out what our weight was! We‘d never get the door open again!至于可以把我们的体重传送到健身房的磅秤：这是不是疯了？我们自己都不想看到自己的体重！如果健身房决定把我们的体重传给网上的其他电器怎么办？要是电冰箱知道我们的体重会怎么样呢？但愿不会如此。否则，我们将再也不能打开冰箱门了！
But here is what really concerns me about these new ―smart‖ appliances:Even if we like the features, we won‘t be able to use them. We can‘t use the appliance features we have now. I have a feature-packed telephone with 43 buttons, at least 20 of which I am afraid to touch. This phone probably can communicate with the dead, but I don‘t know to operate it, just as I don‘t know how to operate my TV, which requires three remote controls. One control (44 buttons ) came with the TV; a second (39 buttons )came with the VCR; the third (37 buttons ) was brought here by the cable man, who apparently felt that I did not have enough buttons.但是对于这些新型的―智能‖电器，我真正关心的是：即使我们喜欢这些功能，我们也无法使用它们。甚至现在电器已有的功能我们也不会使用。我有一部功能齐全的电话机，上面有43个键，但至少有20个功能健我是不敢碰的。这部电话或许可以与死人交流，我却不知如何使用。这就如同我不知道怎样操纵我的电视一样，它需要3个遥控器。其中一个遥控器（有44个功能键）与电视机相连，另一个（有39个功能键）与录像机配套；再一个（有37个功能键）是有线电视管理员带来的，显然他觉得我的遥控器的功能键还不够多。
So when I want to watch TV, I‘m confronted with a total of 120 buttons, identified by such helpful labels as PIP , MTS, DBS, FZ, JUMP and BLANK. There are three buttons labeled POWER, but there are times-especially if my son and his friends, who are not afraid of features, have changed the settings-when I honestly cannot figure out how to turn the TV on. I stand there, holding three remote controls, pressing buttons at random, until eventually I give up and go turn on the dishwasher. It has been, literally, years since I have successfully recorded a TV show. That is how ―smart‖my appliances have become.所以当我想看电视时，我面对的是120个功能键。通过诸多PIP、MTS、DBS、FZ、JUMP、BLANK等有用的标签来识别它们的功能。其中3个功能键的标签都是POWER。但有些时候尤其是如果我儿子和他的朋友们——他们都不害怕破坏原有的功能——改变了设置，我真不知道该如何打开电视机。我站在那儿，手中握着3个遥控器胡乱地按着，直到最终放弃转而去开洗碗机。毫不夸张地说，我花了几年的工夫才学会了录制电视节目。我的电器就―智能‖到了这种程度。
And now the appliance manfacturers want to give us even more features.Do you know what this means? It means that some night you‘ll open the door of your ―smart‖ refrigerator, looking for a beer, and you‘ll hear a pleasant, cheerful voice-recorded by the same woman who informs you
that Your Call Is Important when you call a business that does not wish to speak with you persinally-telling you: Your celery is Limp.‖ You will not know who else your refrigerator knows this, and, what is worse, you will not know how your refrigerator is telling about it ( Hey, Bob! I hear your celery is limp!‖ ). And, if you want to try to make the refrigerator stop, you‘ll have to decipher Owner‘s Manual instructions written by and for nuclear physicists (―To disable the Produce Crispness Monitoring feature, enter the Command Mode, then elect the Edit function, then select Change Vegetable Defaults, then assume that Train A leaves Chicago traveling westbound at 47 mph, while Train B…..‖现在电器制造商们想给我们提供更多电器功能。你知道这意味着什么吗？这意味着某天晚上你打开你那―智能‖的电冰箱寻找一瓶啤酒时，你会听到甜美而讨人喜欢的声音，―您的芹菜发蔫了‖。当你致电一个商家，而对方又不想和你直接交谈时，你会听到一个相同的录音女声告诉你：―这个电话很重要‖。你不知道电冰箱是如何知道这些的。更糟糕的是，你不知道电冰箱把这句话告诉了别的什么人。（―嘿：鲍勃！听说你的芹菜发蔫了！‖）如果你想让你的冰箱停下来，你不得不被破译由核物理学家编写的用户使用手册指南。（―取消产品保鲜监控功能：进入命令模式，然后选择编辑功能，再选择变化蔬菜默认值，然后假设火车A从芝加哥以47英里/小时的速度向西行驶，火车B……‖）。
Is this the kind of future you want, consumers? Do you want appliances that are smarter than you? Your appliances should be dumber than you, just like your furniture, your pets and your represetatives in Congress. So Iam urging you to let the appliance industry know, by phone, letter, fax and e-mail, that when it comes to ―smart‖appliances, you vote NO.You need to act quickly. Because while you‘re reading this, your microwave oven is voting YES.消费者们：这就是你们所期望的未来吗？你希望电器比你还聪明？当然不是。家用电器应该比你笨，就像你的家具、宠物和国会众议员一样。所以我敦促你们通过电话、信件、传真或电子邮件的方式让电器制造厂商知道：当论及―智能电器‖时你们会投反对票。必须尽快行动。因为在你读这篇文章时，你的微波炉正在投赞成票。
六、The Right to Fail
1、I like ―dropout‖as an addition to the American language because it‘s brief and it‘s clear. What I don‘t like is that we use it almost entirely as a dirty word.我喜欢―中途退出者‖这个加入美语的词汇，因为它简洁明了。我所不喜欢的是我们几乎完全把它作为一个禁忌词语使用。
2、We only apply it to people under twenty-one. Yet an adult who spends his days and nights watching mindless TV programs is more of a dropout than an eighteen-year-old who quits college, with its frequently mindless courses, to become, say, a VISTA‘ valunteer. For the young, dropping out its often a way of dropping in.我们只把它用在21岁以下的人身上。与一个中途离开大学、避开那些毫无思想内容的课程，志愿参加为美国服务志愿队（VISTA）的18岁青年相比，一个整天整夜看不需要动脑筋的电视节目的成年人更是半途而废的人。而对于年轻人来说这是以退为进。
3、To hold this opinion, however is little short of treason in America. A boy or girl who leaves college is branded a failure-and the right to fail is one of the few freedoms that this country does not grant its citizens. The American dream is a dream of ―getting ahead,‖ painted in strokes of gold wherever we look. Our advertisements and TV commercials are a hymn to material success, our magazine articles a toast to people who made it to the top. Smoke the right cigarette or drive the right car-so the ads imply-and the girls will be swooning into your deodorized arms or caressing your expensive lapels Happiness goes to the man who has sweet smell of achievement. He is our national idol, and everybody else is our national fink.然而在美国，持有这种观点差不多就是背叛。中途退学的孩子们被指称为失败者—失败的权利是美国政府没有赋予国民的少数几个自由之一。美国之梦是―成功‖之梦，凡是我们放眼之处都是一片金光灿烂。宣传广告和电视广告歌颂物质方面的成功，杂志文章赞誉获得此类成功的人。广告暗示你：吸适合你身份的烟、开适合你身份的车，女孩们就会陶醉在你那没有异味的怀抱之中，抚摸你那昂贵的衣领。幸福只青睐那些散发出成功的甜蜜气味的人。他是全体国民的偶像，其他所有人则是国家的蛀虫。
4、I want to put in a word for the fink, especially the teen-age fink, because if we give him time to get through his finkdom-if we release him from the pressure of attaining certain goals by a certain age-he has a good chance of becoming our national idol, a Jefferson or a Thoreau, a Buckminster Fuller or an Adlai Stevenson, a man with a mind of his own. We need mavericks and dissenters and dreamers far more than we need junior vice-presidents, but we paralyze them by insisting that every step be a step up to the next rung of the ladder. Yet in the fluid years of youth, the only way for boys and girls to find their proper road is often to take a hundred side trips, poking out in different directions, faltering, drawing back, and starting again.我想为蛀虫，尤其是10多岁的蛀虫说句话。因为如果我们给他时间去克服平庸，即让他摆脱在某一年龄取得某种成功的压力，他大有机会成为像杰斐逊、梭罗、巴克敏斯特?富勒或者阿德雷?史蒂文生一样的国家偶像，成为一个拥有独立思想的人。我们对特立独行者和持异义者的需求远远大于对年轻副总裁的需求。但我们却坚持认为每一步都应该是通向更高一级阶梯，而这恰恰使他们气馁。在变化无常的年轻时代，年轻人找到适合自己的正确道路的唯一方法就是先走一百次弯路，探索各个方向，蹒跚，后退，然后重新踏上征程。 5、―But what if we fail?‖ they ask, whispering the dreadful word across the Generation Gap to their parents, who are back home at the Establishment nursing their ―middle-class values‖ and cultivating their ―goal-oriented society.‖ The parents whisper back: ―Don‘t!‖―但是如果我们失败了怎么办呢‖？他们问道，小声地把这些可怕的话语传过代沟，送到父母耳中。这些父母是当权派，正在培养他们的―中产阶级价值观‖，构建他们的―目标明确的社会‖。父母们轻声回答：不能失败！
6、What they should say is ―Don‘t be afraid to fail!‖ Failure isn‘t fatal. Countless people have had a bout with it and come out stronger as a result. Many have even come out famous. History is strewn with eminent dropouts, ―loners‖who followed their own trail, not worrying about its odd twists and turns because they had faith in their own sense of direction. To read their biographies is always exhilarating, not only because they beat the system, but because their system was better than the one that they beat.他们应该说不要害怕失败！失败并不致命。无数人曾失败过，也因此而
新视角研究生英语读说写(1)课文翻译以及课后习题答案
