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More than half the adult population claims to be suffering from it. It makes us tense, irritable and affects ours concentration.
More than half the adult population claims to be suffering from it. It makes us tense, irritable and affects ours concentration.
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2019-07-19
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More than half the adult population claims to be suffering from it. It makes us tense, irritable and affects ours concentration. Worse, it damages our health, causing everything from heart attacks to asthma, from chronic fatigue to spots. Cynics are quick to dismiss the phenomenon as fashionable hype. And they have a point. After all, we are lives longer lives than any generation before us. Most of us have more cash, more holidays, more consumer durables, and more choices in our lives than ever before.
Faced with the historical evidence of human survival, trimuph and even happiness, against far greater odds than we experience today, talk of stress, the modern disease, just sounds like whingeing(诉苦、埋怨).
Yet for many people stress is real enough. The effects of sudden and shocking events on physical and mental health have been well documented. But, crises are not the only things to damage our health. Professor Ben Fletcher, psychologist and Dean of the Business School at the University of Hertfordshire, argues that the work people do has a huge effect on their risk of physical disease.
High demands, combined with low control, lack of support, and especially monotonous work, are stressful and increase our chance of an early death.
But dose it make sense to sweep all these conditions under one title, " stress" ? According to Carry Cooper, Professor of Organizational Psychology at the University of Manchester, it’s an umbrella concept. While cause, context and response all vary, the underlying model is the same. Hans Selye, founder of modern research into stress, described it as " the rate of wear and tear on the body". The analogy emerges out of physics. Subject a bridge to repeated stress—perhaps the waves against the pillars, or steady vibrations from soldiers marching across it in step—and it will start to exhibit strain.
But stress is not entirely malign. A certain amount of pressure—Professor Cooper distinguishes pressure from stress—and we thrive. We keep going, we keep interested in the world, we stay a-live. Too much and we get tense, troubled, breathless and run down.
So stress is real. The answer to our cynics who point to historical evidence is that our ancestors suffered from stress too. Richard Napier, a sixteenth century physician, recorded that around a third of his patients were "trouble in the mind". We are no more wimpish than our forebears, the stress they suffered probably contributing to their ill health and lower life expectancy.
Of course the stresses we face today may genuinely be greater for many people than thirty years ago. Professor Cooper argues that we have less support today to help us deal with the inevitable stresses that arise. We no longer have the communities and extended families that acted as natural sources of moral support. So counseling networks and services have had to grow in their place. But the big test is whether our futures will be consistently more stressful than our past, how will human beings manage to adapt to change? No one knows, but the academics look forward to finding out.
Questions 66 to 68
Mark each statement as either true(T)or false(F)according to the passage.
Translate the following sentences of the passage into Chinese. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. Faced with the historical evidence of human survival, triumph and even happiness, against far greater odds than we experience today, talk of stress, the modern disease, just sounds like whingeing.
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答案
历史证据显示,古人遇到了比我们大得多的生存挑战,然而他们生存了下来,并取得了成功,甚至获得了幸福。比较而言,我们谈论的压力,这个现代的疾病,听起来就像是在没完没了的抱怨。
解析
(本句的翻译需注意语序的调整,使译文通顺,表达意思清晰明了。其中主句主语为“talk of stress,the modern disease”,主句谓语为sounds。odds指“逆境,困难”。)
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