激情晨讀英語(yǔ)美文 第九章 生活的樂(lè)趣:主動(dòng)的玩樂(lè).還是被動(dòng)的消遣

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:]聽(tīng)力課堂 360newlife.cn[00:05.25]Active Play or Passive Entertainment? [00:08.65]Our diurnal existence is divided into two phases, [00:12.91]as distinct as day and night. [00:16.19]We call them work and play. [00:18.38]We work so many hours a day. [00:20.78]And, when we have allowed the necessary minimum [00:23.84]for such activities as eating and shopping, [00:26.14]the rest we spend in various activities which are known as recreation, [00:30.62]an elegant word which disguises the fact [00:33.58]that we usually do not even play in our hour of leisure, [00:36.75]but spend them in various forms of passive enjoyment or entertainment — [00:40.91]not playing football but watching football matches; [00:44.95]not acting but theatre-going; [00:47.98]not walking but riding in a motor coach. [00:51.58]We need to make, therefore, [00:53.66]a hard-and-fast distinction not only between work and play [00:57.55]but equally between active play and passive entertainment. [01:02.04]It is, I suppose, the decline of active play — [01:05.76]of amateur sport — [01:07.62]and the enormous growth of purely receptive entertainment [01:11.11]which has given rise to a sociological interest in the problem. [01:14.83]If the greater part of the population, [01:17.89]instead of indulging in sport, [01:19.86]spend their hours of leisure viewing television programmes, [01:23.36]there will inevitably be a decline in health and physique. [01:27.08]We have to live art if we would be affected by art. [01:30.25]We have to paint rather than look at paintings, [01:33.20]to play instruments rather than go to concerts, [01:36.37]to dance and sing and act ourselves, [01:39.44]engaging all our senses in the ritual and discipline of the arts. [01:43.37]Then something may begin to happen to us: [01:46.66]to work upon our bodies and soul.

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