時差N小時:樂觀的代價 Always be positive

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2016年04月17日

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Yael:My grandmother.

雅艾爾:我的祖母。

She's Miss Sunshine; always looking on the brightside of things, even now that she's ninety-eight yearsold.

她總是很陽光,總是看事情的光明面,即使現(xiàn)在她已經(jīng)98歲高齡。

It's rather extraordinary.

這的確難能可貴。

Seems to me there couldn't be much to be happyabout at that age, except that you're still alive Isuppose.

我想要是除了你還活著，否則對我來說活到那個歲數(shù)也不可能會快樂。

Don:That's exactly what I'm talking about.

唐:那正是我接下來想談論的話題。

Research shows that whether a personis an optimist or a pessimist is related to their quality of life, including their physical health.

研究表明,無論一個人是樂觀主義者還是悲觀主義者都和他們的生活質(zhì)量息息相關(guān),也括他們的身體健康。

The subjects involved first took personality tests in the 1960's and then thirty years later theycompleted a follow-up self-assessment of their health status.

受試者在20世紀60年代參與第一次性格測試，而30年后他們又完成了一次接下來的自我健康狀況的評估。

Researchers found that not only did the optimists from the 1960's report better physical andmental functioning thirty years later, but that optimists also lived longer on average thanpessimists.

研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)30年后不僅當年報告的樂觀主義者具有更好的生理和心理功能,而且比悲觀主義者的平均壽命要長。

It's hardly clear that there is a causal relationship between optimism and health;

樂觀的生活態(tài)度與健康之間的因果關(guān)系并不明顯;

it could be that they are related to the same underlying gene complex or set ofmechanisms.

有可能是相同的潛在復雜基因或機制所致。

Still, it sure is tempting to surmise that it's partly your grandmother's positive attitude thathas kept her alive this long.

不過,當然很容易推測部分是你祖母的積極態(tài)度使她這么長壽。

It may actually be possible that a lot of what my parents have been telling me for years is true.

實際上可能多年來父母一直千嚀萬囑我的是正確的。

If you think positively, good things may happen to you.

如果你態(tài)度積極樂觀，好運終會降臨到你身上。

If you think negatively, then you may doom yourself.