2019年中石油职称英语新版选读文章系列(58)

1、2019 年中石油职称英语新版选读文章系列 (58)Your Are What You Think 你认为自己是什么样的人，就是什么样的 人And if you change your mind-from pessimism to optimism - you can change your life如果你改变想法 - 从悲观变为乐观 - 你就能够改变自己的生活1. Do you see the glass as half-full rather than halfempty? Do you keep your eye upon the doughnut,not upon the hole?

2、Suddenly these cliches are scientific questions,as researchers scrutinize the power of positive thinking.1、你看酒杯是装了半杯酒而不是半杯没装酒吗 ?你的眼睛就是盯 着炸面圈，而不是它中间的孔吗 ?当研究者们仔细观察积极思维的作用 时，这些陈词滥调突然间成了科学问题。2. A fast-growing body of research-104 studies so far,involving some 15,000 people-is proving that optimism can h

3、elp you to be happier,healthier and more successful. Pessimism leads,by contrast,to hopelessness,sickness and failure,and is linked to depression,loneliness and painful shyness. If we could teach people to think more positively, says psychologist Craig A. Anderson of Rice University in Houston,it wo

4、uld be like inoculating them against these mental ills.2、迅速增长的大量研究工资 - 迄今已有 104 项研究项目，涉及 15，000人- 证明乐观能够使你更快乐、更健康、更成功。与此相反， 悲观则导致绝望、疾病以及失败，它与沮丧孤独、令人痛苦的腼腆密 切相关，位于休斯顿的赖斯大学心理学家雷格 A 安得森说：“如果我们能够教会人们更积极地思考，那就像为他们注射了预防这些心理疾 病的疫苗。”3. Your abilities count, explains psychologist Michael F. Scheier ofCarnegie

5、-Mellon University in Pittsburgh,but the belief that you can succeedaffects whether or not you will. In part,thats beacause optimists and pessimistsdeal with the same challenges and disappointments in very different ways.3、“你的水平固然重要。”匹兹堡的卡内基 - 梅隆大学的心理学 家迈克尔 F 沙伊尔说，“但你成功的信念影响到你是否真能成功。” 在某种水准上，这是因为乐观者

6、和悲观者以截然不同的方式对待同样 的挑战和失望。4. Take for example your job. In a major study,psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania and colleague Peter Schulman surveyed sales representatives at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. They found that the positive thinkers among long-time represe

7、ntatives sold 37 percent more insurance than did the negative thinkers. Of newly hired representatives,optimists sold 20 percent more.4、以你的工作为例。宾夕法尼亚大学的心理学家马丁EP塞利格曼与同事彼得舒尔曼在一项重要研究中调查了大都市人寿保险公司的 推销员，他们发现工龄较长的推销员中的积极思考者比消极思考着要 多推销 37%的保险额，在新雇佣的推销员中，乐观主义者则多销了20%。5.Impressed,the company hired 100 people

8、 who had failed the standard industry test but had scored high on optimism. These people,who might never have been hired,sold 10 percent more insurance than did the average representative.5、公司受到了启发，便雇佣了 100 名虽未通过标准企业测试但 态度乐观一项得分极大的人。这些本来可能根本不会被雇佣的人售出 的保险额比推销员的平均销售额高出 10%。6. How did they do it? The s

9、ecret to an optimists success,according to Seligman,is in his explanatory style. When things go wrong the pessimist tends to blame himself. Im not good at this, he says. I always fail. The optimist looks for other explanations. He blames the weather,the phone connection,even the other person. That c

10、ustomer was in a bad mood,he thinks. When things go right,the optimist takes credit while me pessimist thinks success is due to luck.6、他们是如何做的呢 ?据塞利格曼说，乐观主义者成功的秘诀就 在于他的“解释方式”，出了问题之后，悲观主义者倾向于自责。他 说：“我不善于做这种事，我总是失败。”乐观主义者则寻找漏洞， 他责怪天气、抱怨电话线路、或者甚至责怪对方。他认为，是那个客 户当时情绪不好。当一切顺利时，乐观主义者把一切功劳都归于自己 而悲观主义者只把成功视为侥幸。7. Craig Anderson had a group of students phone strangers and ask them to donate blood to the Red Cross. When they failed on the first call or two,pessimists said,I cant