编者按    Editor’s Note

最近读了一篇题为“想你所拥有的而非你想得到的”文章，很受启发，特在本期《学习与交流》中推荐给大家共享。
Recently，I across an article entitled Think of What You Have Instead of What You Want which gives much inspiration. I would like to share it with you in the present issue of Study & Exchange.

生活中经常会听到人们抱怨不够幸福快乐，总是希望得到比现时拥有得更多，以为那样才会快乐。文章的作者通过他多年的咨询工作经验告诉我们，其实快乐不快乐取决于我们观察问题的角度而已，多想想我们目前所拥有的东西，这样要比总是渴望那些我们们想要拥有东西的心情快乐得多，而且也容易满足。
We often hear people complain about their unhappiness in life, as they’re always yearning for much more than what they have in hand and the mind-set is: I will be happy when this desire is fulfilled. The author with years of consulting experience tells us: the feeling of happiness or unhappiness depends actually on the way we think. To cherish what we have in hand will make us much happier than to yearn for what we desire.

祝愿大家把握现在，快乐生活每一天！
Do value what we have in hand and enjoy a happy life every day!

想你所拥有的而非你想得到的
Think of What You Have Instead of What You Want

在做压力咨询顾问的这十几年间,我所见到的最普遍和最具毁灭性的心理趋向,就是专注于我们想要得到的而不是我们所拥有的.我们到底拥有多少似乎并不重要；我们只是一味地扩展我们的欲望表单,而这就注定我们永远不会满足。“这一欲望得到满足后我就会幸福”—这种心态在该欲望真的满足后还会再次产生。
In over a dozen years as a stress consultant, one of the most pervasive and destructive mental tendencies I’ve ever seen is that of focusing on what we want instead of what we have. It doesn’t seem to make any difference how much we have; we just keep expanding our list of desires, which guarantees we will remain dissatisfied. The mind-set that says, “I’ll be happy when this desire is fulfilled” is the same mind-set that will repeat itself once that desire is met.

我们要这要那，如果我们没有得到自己想要的，便不住的想我们没有的—于是我们就总是不满意。可如果我们真的得到自己想要的，又会在新的情况下抱同样的想法。因此，尽管我们得到了自己想要的，我们依然不快活。当我们不断渴求新的欲望时，幸福无法驻留我们的心间。
We want this or that. If we don’t get what we want, we keep thinking about all that we don’t have---and we remain dissatisfied. If we do get what we want, we simply re-create the same thinking in our new circumstances. So, despite getting what we want, we still remain unhappy. Happiness can’t be found when we are yearning for new desires.

幸运的是，有一种办法能让我们幸福，这便是把我们考虑的重点从我们想要得到的转到我们所拥有的。
Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have.

记住要开始多想想自己拥有的而不是自己渴求的。如果你做的到的话，你的生活就会显得比以往要美好的多。也许这是生平第一次，你会领悟到心满意足的含义。
Make a note to yourself to start thinking more about what you have than what you want. If you do, your life will start appearing much better than before. For perhaps the first time in your life, you’ll know what it means to feel satisfied.

Words and Expressions:
Consultant 顾问
Pervasive 普遍深入的
Destructive 破坏性的
Mental tendency 心理倾向
Mind-set 心态
Guarantee 保证，担保
Focus on 集中
Yearn for 渴望，追求

English Humour 英语幽默

1. 两只鸟
老师： 这儿有两只鸟，一只是麻雀。谁能指出哪只是燕子，哪只是麻雀吗？
学生：我指不出，但我知道答案。
老师：请说说看。
学生：燕子旁边的就是麻雀，麻雀旁边的就是燕子。
Two Birds
Teacher: Here are two birds， one is a swallow， the other is sparrow. Now who can tell us which is which?
Student: I cannot point out but I know the answer.
Teacher: Please tell us.
Student: The swallow is beside the sparrow and the sparrow is beside the swallow.

2.一次物理考试
在一次物理考试时，当同学们都还在苦思冥想时，尼克很快就答好了第一个问题。
这个问题是：为什么在打雷时，我们总是先看到闪电后听到雷声？
尼克的回答是：因为眼睛在前，耳朵在后。
A physics Examination
Once in a physics examination，Nick finished the first question very soon, while his classmates were thinking it hard.
The question was: When it thunders, why do we see the lighting first， then hear the thunder rolls?
Nick’s answer: Because our eyes are before ears.

3. 学的越多,知道的越多, 知道的越多；忘记的越多, 忘记的越多；知道的越少, 为什么学来着?!
The more you learn, the more you know; the more you know, the more you forget; the more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

4."现在的梦想决定着你的将来",所以还是再睡一会吧.
"Your future depends on your dreams." So go to sleep.

English Proverbs    英语谚语

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，不用请医生。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. 一日之计在于晨。
A single flower does not make a spring. 一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。
A sound mind in a sound body. 健全的精神寓于健康的身体。

（本期主编：李东亮
编 辑：王晶晶）