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“We usually only get the human’s side of history through written accounts, but of course written history does not always record exactly how something happened.

“我们通常只能通过文字记载了解人类视角下的历史，但当然，书面历史并不总能准确记录事情是如何发生的。

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。）

(47) A return to that version of scientific literacy, which focused more on teaching what science is and how it works and less on memorizing scientific facts, seems like something society today desperately needs.

(47) 回归那种版本的科学素养——更注重教授科学是什么以及科学如何运作，而较少注重记忆科学事实——似乎正是当今社会迫切需要的。

When you take things personally, you’re interpreting these situations as saying something significant and negative about you as a person.

当你把事情往自己身上揽时，你就是在把这些情形解读为对你这个人作出了某种重大而负面的评价。

Five years ago, at summer’s end, Andrew Fusek Peters was diagnosed with bowel cancer. “I was waiting for surgery, feeling really ill, sitting in my garden. It was amazing weather and there were painted lady butterflies everywhere,” he says. “They were a symbol of fragile life, of hope and defiance, and something appealed to my soul.”

五年前的夏末，安德鲁·富塞克·彼得斯被诊断出患有肠癌。“我在等待手术，感觉非常难受，坐在我的花园里。天气好极了，到处都是小红蛱蝶，”他说，“它们象征着脆弱的生命，象征着希望与不屈，有某种东西打动了我的灵魂。”

It involves communicating a need on your part — there’s something you can’t do.

它意味着要表达你自己的一种需要——有些事你做不到。