【第四十六期】束手无策? | Monica老师的听写频道

本篇文章是与决策有关的,属于科普知识。慢速英语,语速正常。可以作为口译入门或基础英语听力口语听写的素材。大家快来挑战自己吧!

答案和解析来啦:

Many of us spend a large a part of our lives, in one way or another, feeling stuck,
我们当中有很多人,在一生中花了很多时间,以这样或那样的方式感到停滞不前,

that is in a state where a strong desire to move forward on an issue meets with an equally strong compulsion to stay fixed where one is.
感觉被困在这样一种状态中,在一件事上想要进步的强烈冲动遭遇了同样想要保持原地不动的强烈愿望。

For example, we might at one level powerfully want to leave a job in finance in order to retrain in architecture,
例如:我们可能在某种程度上强烈地想要离开金融领域,目的是在建筑领域深造。

but at the same time, remain blocked by a range of doubts, hesitations, counter-arguments and guilty feelings.
但与此同时,我们仍被一系列的怀疑、犹豫、反驳和负罪感所阻碍。

Or we might be impelled to leave our marriage while simultaneously unable to imagine any realistic life outside of it.
或者我们可能想要逃离婚姻,同时又无法想象离婚后的生活。

To act feels horrific, but doing nothing is killing us as well.
采取行动后感到害怕,但什么都不做也会害死我们。

Every avenue appears shut off.
每条路似乎都是死路一条。

And so one ruminates, turns over the question late at night,
因此一个人在深夜,反复思考这个问题。

tries the patience of therapists and watches life go by with mounting anxiety and self-disgust.
考验治疗师的耐心,看着生活一点点地堆积焦虑和自我厌恶。

As an outsider, one might be tempted to ask questions to move things on:
作为局外人,你可能会忍不住问一些问题来推动事情的进展:

Why don’t you try to enroll on a course to see if you might like a new area of work?
为什么不是这直接报一门课程,看看是否喜欢新的工作领域?

Why don’t you discuss your dissatisfactions with your partner?
为什么不试着和你的伴侣讨论不满意的地方?

Why don’t you go to counselling?
为什么不去寻求咨询呢?

What about splitting up?
分开怎么样呢?

But we’re likely to find that our friend can’t make any progress, whatever we say.
但是我们很可能发现,不管我们说什么,朋友们都不会因此取得任何进展。

解析在这里哦!

1. compulsion,名词,表示“冲动”,比如:He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.(他感到一股突如其来的扔下桶跑掉的冲动。)

2. retrain,动词,表示“再培训”,比如:Airlines would prefer to update rather than retrain crews.(航空公司宁愿增添新机组人员而不愿对老的机组人员进行再培训。)

3. horrific,形容词,表示“极其可怕的”,比如:I have never seen such horrific injuries.(我从没见过这么严重的伤。)

4. counsel,动词,表示“提供建议”,比如:a psychologist who counsels people with eating disorders(一名向饮食紊乱症患者提供咨询的心理医生)。

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