中石油2016通用英语选读课文48The Conscious Use of the Subconscious Mind对潜意识的有意识利用
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1 48 The Conscious Use of the Subconscious Mind 对潜意识的有意识利用
1.Nearly all of us have had the experience of riding on a train with no one to talk to,or
of sitting through a concert or lecture to which we were
not really listening,and having ideas tumble over
themselves in our minds. This is the subconscious mind at
work,taking advantage of the relaxed state of the conscious mind.It is
capable of doing much of our best thinking and of helping us solve our most
perplexing problems.It can bring to bear on all our affairs
far more wisdom and experience than our conscious minds command.
1.几乎所有人都有过这种经历，独自一人坐在火车上没有人聊天，或是听音乐会或讲座时思想开小差，脑子里的念头此起彼伏。这就是潜意识利用了有意识的大脑的放松状态在起作用，它能够很好地思维并且帮助我们解决最复杂的问题，其机智和熟练程度甚至比有意识的头脑更强。
2.There is,of course,a time for concentrated application to our
problems.But there is also a time to stop and whittle
and let the subconscious mind do its part of the work.For it is accomplishment that we are all after,not activity.
2.有时我们需要集中注意力在所做的事情上，但有时也需要停下来让潜意识完成一些工作，毕竟我们追求的是事情的结果而不是做事情本身。
3.Fehr,the French scientist,who made a study of the working habits of his
contemporaries,says that 75 percent
of the scientists stated that their important discoveries came to them when
they were not actively engaged in research.
3.法国科学家费尔对于他的同龄人的工作习惯做了一个研究，他发现75%的科学家认为自己最重大的发现恰恰是在他们没有专注于工作时得到的。
4.Most of us use our conscious minds entirely too hard and,as a result,our
thinking and our decisions are not as good as they should be.The trouble is,we are
working with only half our minds,and with less than half of our accumulated experience and judgment.As a consequence,we cheat ourselves of many hours of recreation which in
themselves add to the effectiveness of our thinking.For relaxation is the key
to the door of the subconscious mind,which works best when we are doing what we
like best to do.A happy mind is a healthy mind and it puts drive back of a man’s
activities.As Henry David Thoreau said，“A really efficient laborer will be found not to 2 crowd his day with work.”
4.多数人过度地使用了全部的意识心智，得到的结果却是不尽如人意的想法和决定。实际问题是，我们工作时只使用一半的意识，以及不到一半的经验和判断力，所以我们会花很多时间进行娱乐活动，其本身就能够提高我们思考的效率。放松是通往潜意识大门的钥匙，只有当我们做自己真正喜欢的事情时，它才能发挥最大的作用。快乐的心态才是健康的，它给我们的活动带来驱动力。正如亨利•大卫•梭罗说的那样：“真正高效的工作者不会让所有时间都被工作占据。”
5.How then may we consciously plan to use the subconscious mind,to take
advantage of its power to improve our judgments and decisions,or to furnish
us with bold new ideas or creative conceptions?
5.那么，怎样才能有意识地利用我们的潜意识，利用它的能力来促进我们的判断和决策，或者让我们获得全新的想法或有创意的理念呢？
6. The process of thinking is akin to the
process of cooking. Although direct heat is ordinarily used,many dishes are
better brought to completion after long,slow cooking by retained
heat.
6.思考的过程和烹饪的过程类似。尽管可以用明火直接加热，但很多菜肴经过小火长时间慢慢地烹煮才能够达到更好的效果。
7.The subconscious mind is a fireplace cooker into which we can put our problems
to finish the cooking on “retained thought.”To do all of our mental
cooking with our conscious minds is to burn mental energy wastefully,and at high
cost to our nervous systems.
7.潜意识就像一个炊具，我们可以把问题放进去，用“持续的思考”慢慢处理它。用意识处理所有的思想对脑力来说是一种浪费，神经系统会产生很大的消耗。
8.One rule always holds good:You must give your problems to your
subconscious mind in the form of definite assignments,after assembling all the essential facts,figures and arguments.The cooking process must first be started by focusing
your mind on this material long and intently enough to get it
thoroughly heated with your best conscious thinking.
8.下面这个规律总是有效的：把所有基础的事实、数据和论点都集合在一起，然后把你的问题以“明确任务”的形式交给潜意识。你必须长时间地、仔细地专注于这些材料，用你最佳的意识思维完全“加热”他们，然后才能够进入到“烹饪”模式。
9.To start this focusing process,one method is to write on a sheet of paper
the problem facing you,jotting down all important aspects.If there are 3 pro and con sides,enumerate all the factors you can think of in
two columns. Then tear up the sheet and forget all about it.Do
something you want to do, something that will rest your mind.
9.开启这个专注过程时，要把你的问题写在一张纸上，并且记下所有重要的细节。如果有正反两方面，请把两个方面所有的细节都记下来，然后撕掉纸条，忘记它们。去做一些你喜欢的事情，让头脑放松。
10.Another way is to talk over the problem or situation with your associates,exploring every angle in detail.Get right down to cases—but don’t attempt
to come to a decision.End your discussion abruptly
and set the whole matter aside to “cook.”
10.另一个方法是和你的合作者谈论你遇到的问题和目前的情况，要涉及到每个方面的细节。只讲事实，不要试图得出结论，然后突然结束讨论，把这件事放到一边去“烹饪”。
11.Still a third method is to work consciously on the problem until you are
exhausted mentally.At that point put it entirely out of your
mind.Go fishing,golfing,or to bed.
11.第三个方法是把全部的注意力集中在一件事上，直到大脑感到筋疲力尽，这时候把这件事彻底拋到脑后，去钓鱼、打高尔夫或是睡觉。
12.One night in October,1920,Frederick Grant Banting,a young Canadian surgeon with so little a practice that he had to teach to eke out a living,was working over his next day’s
