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将下面短文翻译成中文：Enneagram of Personality 九型人格The Enneagram is a highly sophisticated system of nine personality profiles that are meant to help us know ourselves and others “as we/they are to themselves”. Each type profile serves as a customized road map for on-going personal growth consistent with categories of modern psychological typology. The nine types are as follows:Type One: The PerfectionistIm not angry, Im just trying to get it right!Basic Proposition: There is a right way and a wrong way to do everything.Habitual Focus of Attention: What is right or wrong, correct or incorrect. What Perfectionists tell us about themselves: They live with a powerful inner critic that monitors every thought, word, and deed; They worry about getting things right and are unusually sensitive to criticism; They strive for perfection and feel responsible; Perfectionists also report a focus on being good and repress their impulses/desires for pleasure; They can be rigid, overly controlled, seeing virtue as its own reward.Type Two: The GiverI know lots of people who couldnt get along without me. Wheres the pride in that? Basic Proposition: Love and survival depend on giving to get.Habitual Focus of Attention: Other peoples needsWhat Givers observe about themselves: A preoccupation with the needs of others; Pride in giving and helping; Sometimes feel taken advantage of; Have a hard time expressing their own needs; Are manipulative; and Alter their self-presentation to meet the needs of important others. Type Three: The PerformerIm busy all of the time. Theres competition in everything I do. I just love that arena.Basic Proposition: Love and recognition are only for champions. Habitual Focus of Attention: Tasks, Roles, & ResultsWhat Performers observe about themselves: Their primary identification is with accomplishment and success; They seek approval and acceptance based on performance; Their attention goes to task; Image is important; They feel constant pressure to perform; and There is an inattention to feelings/Not now. Type Four: The Romantic I cannot imagine anyone envying me. By comparison, if I had what others had, then I would be more fulfilled and happy.Basic Proposition: Others enjoy the happiness that I have been denied. Habitual Focus of Attention: Best is whats absent.What Romantics observe about themselves: There is a constant longing for the missing ingredient for personal happiness; Their focus is on the best of whats missing, whats distant, and whats hard to get; The ordinary pales by comparison; There is a deeply felt abandonment that translates into a belief that I am un- loveable”: and, Romanitics feel special and elite. Their suffering sets them apart from others. Type Five: The ObserverI think I feel. Basic Proposition: Love and respect are gained by practicing self-sufficiency. Habitual Focus of Attention: What others want from me.What Observers tell us about themselves: They have a marked need for privacy; They limit intrusion from a world that wants too much from them; As a result, Observers hoard time, space, energy, knowledge and themselves; They detach from feelings and observe rather than participate; and, They are minimalistsType Six: The Loyal SkepticWhat is really going here?.Basic Proposition: Love and protection are gained by vigilance and endurance. Habitual Focus of Attention: Threat, hazard, difficultiesWhat Loyal Skeptics tell us about themselves: They are preoccupied with safety and security concerns; They greet everything with a doubting mind, and contrary thinking; Loyal Skeptics report active imaginations that amplify questionable areas; They question people and authority; They procrastinate because of fearing the outcome, failing to complete projectsType Seven: The EpicureWhats next?.thats my escape from pain.Basic Proposition: Pain and frustration can be avoided and the good life assured by inventing options, opportunities, and adventures. Habitual Focus of Attention: The positive in all thingsWhat Epicures tell us about themselves: Life is an adventure! Epicures are pleasure-seeking and gluttons for experience and enjoyment; They are optimistic, active, and energetic; See multiple options, but have difficulty with commitment; and Do not want limits on themselvesType Eight: The BossIf people start backing off, that doesnt make my anger go away, but if you match it, it will lower and Ill sit down and talk.Basic Proposition: Protection and respect are gained by becoming strong and powerful and by hiding vulnerability.Habitual Focus of Attention: Power, Injustices and Control. What Protectors tell us about themselves: They want stimulation and excitement; They are concerned with strength and protecting the weak; Protectors are direct, confrontational and express their anger immediately; They are aggressive, intimidating and impulsive; but Deny their own vulnerability and weakness.Type Nine: The MediatorWho am I again.? Basic Proposition: Belonging and comfort are gained by attending to and merging with others and by dispersing energy into substitute objects. Habitual Focus of Attention: The inessential and the agenda of others.What Mediators tell us about themselves: They see all sides to every issue as peacemakers and harmonizers; They avoid conflict and want the comfortale solution; They have difficulty saying no; They are ambivalent about their own needs and wants; They go along to get along.WingsMost, but not all, Enneagram of Personality theorists teach that a persons basic type is modified, at least to some extent, by the personality dynamics of the two adjacent types as indicated on the Enneagram figure. These two types are often called wings. A person of the Type Three, for example, is understood to have points Two and Four as their wing types. The circle of the Enneagram figure may indicate that the types or points exist on a spectrum rather than as distinct types or points unrelated to those adjacent to them.citation needed A person may be understood, therefore, to have a core type and one or two wing types that influence but do not change the core type.Stress and Security PointsThe lines between the points add further meaning to the information provided by the descriptions of the types. Sometimes called the security and stress points, or points of integration and disintegration, these connected points also contribute to a persons overall personality. There are, therefore, at least four other points that can significantly affect a persons core personality; the two points connected by the lines to the core type and the two wing points.Roman Catholic criticismIn 2000, the United States Committee on Doctrine produced a draft report on the origins of the Enneagram to aid bishops in their evaluation of its use in their dioceses. The report identified aspects of the intersection between the Enneagram and Catholicism which, in their