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Neuroscientists have been at pains to demonstrate that the pleasure a book provides isn’t indulgence; it’s good for you.

神经科学家们一直在努力证明，书籍带来的乐趣并不是放纵，而是对你有益的。

Reading has also been found to make us more helpful, to reduce bias, and even to increase longevity — something we will enjoy all the more if we have a good book in our hands. (And yes, all these benefits are more closely associated with physical books than digital ones.)

研究还发现，阅读能让我们更乐于助人、减少偏见，甚至延长寿命——如果手里有一本好书，我们会更加享受这份长寿。（没错，所有这些益处与纸质书的联系都比与电子书更为密切。）

is an example of good maintenance.

是良好维护的典范。

So what’s the appeal of a long, sweaty day in pursuit of an elusive, fast-moving wild animal? “It just feels bloody brilliant,” says Peters. “If I’ve had a full day of good encounters with butterflies, met interesting butterfly people and I’ve got some good shots, that becomes a vault in my spiritual bank. It’s a happy feeling.”

那么，花上漫长而汗流浃背的一整天去追逐一种难以捉摸、行动迅速的野生动物，吸引力何在？“感觉就是棒极了，”彼得斯说，“如果我度过了与蝴蝶美好相遇的一整天，结识了有趣的蝴蝶爱好者，还拍到了一些好照片，那就成了我精神银行里的一座金库。那是一种快乐的感觉。”

So what’s the appeal of a long, sweaty day in pursuit of an elusive, fast-moving wild animal? “It just feels bloody brilliant,” says Peters. “If I’ve had a full day of good encounters with butterflies, met interesting butterfly people and I’ve got some good shots, that becomes a vault in my spiritual bank. It’s a happy feeling.”

那么，花上漫长而汗流浃背的一整天去追逐一种难以捉摸、行动迅速的野生动物，吸引力何在？“感觉就是棒极了，”彼得斯说，“如果我度过了与蝴蝶美好相遇的一整天，结识了有趣的蝴蝶爱好者，还拍到了一些好照片，那就成了我精神银行里的一座金库。那是一种快乐的感觉。”

The findings showed that help-seekers generally underestimate how [willing] other people will be to help and how good it will make the help-giver feel (for most people, having the chance to help someone is highly [rewarding]).

研究结果显示，求助者普遍低估了别人有多{{17}}提供帮助，也低估了帮忙会让助人者感觉多好（对大多数人来说，有机会帮助别人是非常{{18}}的）。

“Donkeys are champions when it comes to carrying stuff and are good at going at deserts,” co-author Ludovic Orlando, an evolutionary biologist at Paul Sabin University in France, tells the publication.

“说到驮运东西，驴是佼佼者，而且它们擅长在沙漠中行走，”论文合著者、法国保罗·萨巴蒂埃大学的进化生物学家卢多维克·奥兰多对该刊物表示。

But, with this newfound connection, many of us share sensitive, sometimes highly confidential information, even though over a third of people don’t realise that AI platforms may not be very good at keeping our secrets...secret.

但是，有了这种新的联系，我们许多人会分享敏感的、有时甚至是高度机密的信息，尽管超过三分之一的人没有意识到，人工智能平台未必很擅长替我们保守秘密。

We need to be much better at reducing and diverting demand on health services, rather than simply managing it.

我们需要更善于减少和分流对医疗服务的需求，而不仅仅是管理这些需求。

(46) They sometimes travel more than sixty miles to find food or water, and are very good at working out where other elephants are — even when they are out of sight.

（46）它们有时会跋涉六十多英里去寻找食物或水源，而且非常善于判断其他大象的位置——即使在看不见对方的时候也是如此。

We’re fairly good at judging people based on first impressions, thin slices of experience ranging from a glimpse of a photo to a five-minute interaction, and deliberation can be not only extraneous but intrusive.

我们相当擅长根据第一印象来判断他人，这些第一印象是从瞥一眼照片到五分钟互动不等的经验“薄片”，而深思熟虑不仅可能是多余的，甚至可能是干扰。

Other research shows we’re better at detecting deception from thin slices when we rely on intuition instead of reflection.

其他研究表明，当我们依靠直觉而非反思时，我们更善于从“薄片”中识破欺骗。

And then the [inevitable] happens: You lose your patience and either scream at your kids or say something that was too [harsh] and does nobody any good.

然后不可避免的事情就发生了：你失去耐心，要么对孩子大吼大叫，要么说出一些过于严厉、对谁都没好处的话。

Regrettably, however, the report’s failure to address the true nature of the crisis facing liberal education may cause more harm than good.

然而遗憾的是，该报告未能触及博雅教育所面临危机的真正本质，这可能弊大于利。

It usually leads to no good — drinking, drugs and casual sex.

它通常不会带来什么好结果——酗酒、吸毒和随意的性行为。

In her latest book, Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things, Elizabeth R. DeSombre argues that the best way to collectively change the behavior of large numbers of people is for the change to be structural.

伊丽莎白·R·德松布尔在她的新书《为什么好人会做破坏环境的事》中指出，集体改变大量人群行为的最佳方式是让这种改变成为结构性的。

And third, through a more diffuse “halo effect,” whereby its good deeds earn it greater consideration from consumers and others.

第三，通过一种更为广泛的“光环效应”，公司的善举使其赢得消费者和其他人更多的好感。

Even as we humans count on forests to soak up a good share of the carbon dioxide we produce, we are threatening their ability to do so.

就在我们人类依靠森林吸收我们所产生的大量二氧化碳的同时，我们也在威胁着森林的这种能力。

Make Your Print Newspaper a Luxury Good.

把你的印刷报纸变成奢侈品。

If that sounds melodramatic, consider this: The Art Directors Guild, a labor union representing about 3,000 film workers, has suspended a training program and issued a statement explaining that “we cannot in good conscience encourage you to pursue our profession.”

如果这听起来有些夸张，那么请想一想：代表约3000名电影从业者的工会——美术指导工会已经暂停了一项培训计划，并发表声明解释说：“我们无法昧着良心鼓励你从事我们这一行。”

Job security or stability was the second most important career goal (work-life balance was number one), followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the greater good.

工作保障或稳定性是第二重要的职业目标（排在第一位的是工作与生活的平衡），其次是献身于某项事业的感觉或为更大的公共利益服务而感到满足。

Put on a good face, always

始终保持良好的面貌

Second, customers may be willing to buy a company’s products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.

其次，顾客可能愿意购买一家公司的产品，以此间接地为该公司资助的公益事业捐款。

end the print edition for good.

永久停办印刷版。

Certain jobs have gone away for good, outmoded by machines.

某些工作已经永远消失，被机器淘汰了。