每日英语：卸下思想的包袱
1. 话说回来，一个人的健康，要从生理、心理、适应能力这三方面来决定。我能活到现在，大概是总结了过去几十年的经验教训，卸下了思想包袱，不生气、不悲观。我这个人还有一个好处，就是求知欲强，趣味广泛。上至天下大事，小至草木鱼虫，我都有兴趣爱好。我养过鸟，养过狗，现在还养猫;集邮、搜集书画我都着过迷;看电视、听广播，除新闻之外，主要是看球，特别是足球。意大利甲级联赛的录像，我每场必看，只是我好胜心强，中国队在国际比赛中受挫，我就生气。2. What is an intellectual? I shall define him as an individual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in Socratic(苏格拉底) way about moral problems.(英译汉)
上期参考答案
1. 没有人能否认：教育是人生最重要的一方面。
No one can deny the fact that one person's education is the most important aspect of his life.
2. 我不喝酒，但从30岁那年开始抽烟，先是偶尔为之，后来上了瘾。在文化部工作那十年，每天两包(40支)，连手指也熏黄了，到晚上唇干舌燥，也毫无戒意。
I’m a teetotaler, but I began to smoke at the age of 30. At first I did it only occasionally, but later I became addicted to it. During the ten years when I was with the Ministry of Culture, I used to consume two packs a day, containing 40 cigarettes, till my fingers were yellowed and my lips and tongue parched. But I still couldn’t get out of the tobacco habit.
3. 有人在报刊上写文章讲吸烟有害，我认为，这是危言耸听，有逆反心理。歪道理的理由是，我烟龄几十年还活到这把年纪。奇怪的是，两年前的一个早上，点上第一支烟，觉得不是滋味，掐灭了，从此，不戒自戒。在我的吸烟史上画了一个句号。
Some people dwelled on the harmfulness of smoking in articles published in newspaper or magazines. To me, however, they were exaggerating things just to scare people and sort of manifesting a rebellious mentality. I reasoned lamely that decades of heavy smoking hadn’t shortened my life at all. Strange to say, early on a certain morning two years ago, my first cigarette of the day happened to be so sickening that I stubbed it out immediately and from then on smoked no more. That marked the beginning of my clean break with cigarettes.
4. Social science is that branch of intellectual enquirywhich seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the same reasoned, orderly, systematic, and dispassioned mannerthat natural scientists use for the study of natural phenomena.(英译汉)
社会科学是知识探索的一个分支，它试图象自然科学家用来研究自然现象那样，以理性的，有序的，系统的和冷静的方式来研究人类及其行为。
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