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Active Play or Passive Entertainment?
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  • Active Play or Passive Entertainment?

    主动的玩乐还是被动的消遣?

    Our diurnal1 existence is divided into two phases, as distinct as day and night. We call them work and play. We work so many hours a day. And, when we have allowed the necessary minimum for such activities as eating and shopping, the rest we spend in various activities which are known as recreations, an elegant word which disguises the fact that we usually do not even play in our hours of leisure, but spend them in various forms of passive enjoyment or entertainment―not playing football but watching football matches;not acting2 but theatre-going;Not walking but riding in a motor coach.

    人们的每天的生存状态可以一分为二,像白天和黑夜那样清晰可辨。我们将之称为工作和娱乐。每天,我们在工作上花费许多小时,再把花在诸如吃饭、购物等必不可少、无法再减的活动的时间扣除,我们把花在其他活动的剩余时间归在娱乐范围。娱乐这个词相当雅致。但掩饰了这样一个事实:即使在休闲的时光中,我们通常并没有玩乐,而是在进行各种各样被动的享乐或娱乐中——不是踢足球而只是看足球比赛,不是登台演出而是看人演戏,不是散步行走而是搭乘汽车。

    We need to make, therefore, a hard-and-fast distinction not only between work and play but equally between active play and passive entertainment. It is, I suppose, the decline of active play―of amateur sport―and the enormous growth of purely3 receptive entertainment which has given rise to a sociological interest in the problem. If the greater part of the population, instead of indulging in sport, spend their hours of leisure viewing television programmers, there will inevitably4 be a decline in health and physique.

    因此,我们需要不仅对工作和娱乐做出严格的区别,而且要同样严格地区分主动的玩乐和被动的消遣。在我看来,正是由于主动的玩乐——业余体育运动衰退和纯粹接受性消遣的疯狂膨胀,导致了社会学家对这一问题的关注。假如人口的大多数不是参加体育活动,而是把闲暇时光花在“看”电视节目上,人们的健康和体质都会不可避免地下降。

    We have to live art if we would be affected5 by art. We have to paint rather than look at paintings, to play instruments rather than go to concerts, to dance and sing and act ourselves, engaging all our senses in the ritual and discipline of the arts. Then something may begin to happen to us:to work upon our bodies and soul.

    如果我们希望受到艺术的熏陶,我们就应该当艺术的生活。不是去欣赏油画,我们自己应当去作画;不是去听音乐会,我们自己应当去演奏乐器,去跳舞,去唱歌,去演戏,让我们的感官受各个艺术门类的规矩和训练。随后,某种变化就会出现,对我们的身心都会发生影响。

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    1 diurnal [daɪˈɜ:nl] ws5xi   第11级
    adj.白天的,每日的
    参考例句:
    • Kangaroos are diurnal animals. 袋鼠是日间活动的动物。
    • Over water the diurnal change in refraction is likely to be small. 在水面上,折光的日变化可能是很小的。
    2 acting [ˈæktɪŋ] czRzoc   第7级
    n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
    参考例句:
    • Ignore her, she's just acting. 别理她,她只是假装的。
    • During the seventies, her acting career was in eclipse. 在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
    3 purely [ˈpjʊəli] 8Sqxf   第8级
    adv.纯粹地,完全地
    参考例句:
    • I helped him purely and simply out of friendship. 我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
    • This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative. 这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
    4 inevitably [ɪnˈevɪtəbli] x7axc   第7级
    adv.不可避免地;必然发生地
    参考例句:
    • In the way you go on, you are inevitably coming apart. 照你们这样下去,毫无疑问是会散伙的。
    • Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment. 技术变革必然会导致失业。
    5 affected [əˈfektɪd] TzUzg0   第9级
    adj.不自然的,假装的
    参考例句:
    • She showed an affected interest in our subject. 她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
    • His manners are affected. 他的态度不自然。

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