一位颇有天赋的美国心理学家曾说过："忧虑是情绪的痉挛；心灵攫住某样东西，便不肯松手。"
A gifted American psychologist has said, 'Worry is a spasm of the emotion; the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go.'
在这种状态下，与心灵争辩毫无用处。
It is useless to argue with the mind in this condition.
意志越强，这项（说服）任务越是徒劳。
The stronger the will, the more futile the task.
人所能做的，只是轻柔地将别的什么东西悄悄塞入那痉挛般的掌握之中。
One can only gently insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp.
而如果这另一样东西选择得当，如果它确实伴随着另一个兴趣领域的光亮，那么，这旧有的过度攫紧便会渐渐地——往往颇为迅速地——松弛下来，复原与修复的过程也由此开始。
And if this something else is rightly chosen, if it is really attended by the illumination of another field of interest, gradually, and often quite swiftly, the old undue grip relaxes and the process of recuperation and repair begins.
因此，培养一种业余爱好以及新的兴趣形式，对一位公众人物来说是头等重要的策略。
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of the first importance to a public man.
但这并不是可以在一天之内完成或仅凭意志的一道命令便能迅速即兴拼凑起来的事情。
But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will.
培养替代性精神兴趣，是一个漫长的过程。
The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process.
种子必须精心挑选；它们必须落在良好的土壤中；它们必须被勤勉地照料，这样，活力充盈的果实才能在需要时唾手可得。
The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.
要真正快乐、真正安稳，一个人至少应拥有两三种爱好，而且它们必须全都是真实的。
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
到了晚年才开始说"我要对这个或那个感兴趣"，是毫无用处的。
It is no use starting late in life to say: 'I will take an interest in this or that.'
这样的尝试只会加重精神努力的负担。
Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort.
一个人或许能获取大量与日常工作无关的知识，然而几乎得不到任何益处或解脱。
A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet get hardly any benefit or relief.
做你喜欢的事没用；你必须喜欢你所做的事。
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
宽泛地说，人类可以分为三类：劳累致死者、忧虑致死者，以及无聊致死者。
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
向一位因整整一周的辛劳汗水而筋疲力竭的体力劳动者提供在周六下午踢场足球或打场棒球的机会，是毫无用处的。
It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon.
邀请那位连续六天都在为严肃之事操劳或忧虑的政治家、专业人士或商人，在周末去为无关紧要的事情操劳或忧虑，是毫无用处的。
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.
至于那些不幸的人——他们能支配一切想要的东西，能满足每一个奇想，几乎可以触及每一个欲望的对象——对他们来说，一种新的乐趣、一种新的刺激不过是又一次额外的厌腻。
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.
他们徒劳地狂乱地四处奔走，企图以单纯的喧嚣与运动逃脱那如复仇般追来的无聊。
In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion.
对他们来说，某种形式的自律是最有希望的出路。
For them discipline in one form or another is the most hopeful path.
或许也可以说，理性的、勤劳的、有用的人类被分为两类：第一类，工作就是工作、乐趣就是乐趣的人；第二类，工作与乐趣合二为一的人。
It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one.
在这两类人中，前者占多数。他们有自己的补偿。
Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations.
在办公室或工厂度过的漫长时光，带给他们的奖赏不仅是维持生计的手段，还有即便是对最简单、最朴素的乐趣形式的强烈渴望。
The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms.
但命运的宠儿属于第二类。
But Fortune's favoured children belong to the second class.
他们的生活是一种自然的和谐。
Their life is a natural harmony.
对他们来说，工作的时间永远不够长。
For them the working hours are never long enough.
每一天都是假日，而真正的普通假日，一旦到来，反被视为对一种令人全身心投入的事业的强制性打扰，令人心不甘情不愿。
Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays, when they come, are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
然而，对这两类人来说，需要一种替代性的视野、一种氛围的转换、一种精力的转移，是不可或缺的。
Yet to both classes, the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere of a diversion of effort, is essential.
确实，极有可能恰恰是那些以工作为乐趣的人，最需要不时地将工作从心灵中驱逐出去的手段。
Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.