練習(xí)材料：Lesson 46-3 Hobbies業(yè)余愛好

原文

It is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.

As for the unfortunate people who can command everything they want, who can gratify every caprice and lay their hands on almost every object of desire for them a new pleasure, a new excitement is only an additional satiation. In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion. For them discipline in one form or another is the most hopeful path.

It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes:

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?t ?z n?? ju?z ??f?r?? e? ?m?nj??l ?le?b?r?, ?ta??d a?t w?e ? hɑ?d wi?ks sw?t ?nd ??f?t, e? ?ɑ?ns ?v ?ple??? ? ge?m ?v ?f?tb??l ?? ?be?sb??l ?n ?s?t?de? ?ɑ?ft??nu?n. ?t ?z n?? ju?z ?n?va?t?? e? ?p?l??t???n ?? e? pr??f???nl ?? ?b?zn?s m?n, hu? h?z bi?n ?w??k?? ?? ?w?ri?? ??ba?t ?s??r??s θ??z f?? s?ks de?z, tu? w??k ?? ?w?ri ??ba?t ?tra?fl?? θ??z ?t e? ?wi?k??nd.

?z f?? ei ?n?f???n?t ?pi?pl hu? k?n k??mɑ?nd ??vr?θ?? ee? w?nt, hu? k?n ?gr?t?fa? ??vri k??pri?s ?nd le? ee? h?ndz ?n ???lm??st ??vri ??b??kt ?v d??za?? f?? e?m ? nju? ?pl???, ? nju? ?k?sa?tm?nt ?z ???nli ?n ??d???nl ?se????e???n. ?n ve?n ee? r?? ?fr?nt?k(?)li ra?nd fr?m ple?s tu? ple?s, ?tra??? tu? ?s?ke?p fr?m ??v?n??? ?b??d?m ba? m?? ?kl?t?r ?nd ?m????n. f?? e?m ?d?s?pl?n ?n w?n f??m ??r ??n?e?r ?z e? m??st ?h??pf?l pɑ?θ.

?t me? ???ls?? bi? s?d e?t ?r???nl, ?n?d?str??s, ?ju?sf?l ?hju?m?n ?bi???z ɑ? d??va?d?d ??ntu? tu? ?klɑ?s?z:

生詞

laborer? ?le?b?r?

a person doing unskilled manual work for wages

trifling t ?tra?fl??

A trifling matter is small and unimportant.

gratify ?gr?t?fa?

If you are gratified by something, it gives you pleasure or satisfaction

caprice k??pri?s

A caprice is an unexpected action or decision which has no strong reason or purpose.

frantically ?fr?nt?k(?)li

in an uncontrolled manner

clatter ?kl?t?r

If you say that people or things clatter somewhere, you mean that they move there noisily.

rational? ?r???nl

Rational decisions and thoughts are based on reason rather than on emotion.

industrious? ?n?d?str??s

If you describe someone as industrious, you mean they work very hard

satiation se????e???n

the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more

the act of achieving full gratification

任務(wù)配置：L0+L4

練習(xí)感悟：完善了生詞。朗讀的語速過快。聽完后再讀不如一邊聽一邊讀。