2025年12月六级第3套仔细阅读 Passage 1 原文翻译及答案解析

Mindfulness has been shown to have a number of meaningful health benefits — it can help reduce anxiety and promote healing in those suffering from chronic illness.

正念已被证明具有许多显著的健康益处——它可以帮助减轻焦虑，并促进慢性病患者的康复。

The practice is based on an insight first described in ancient Buddhist texts that human beings have the capacity to observe experience without being caught up in it. This means simply that it is possible to observe ourselves having a craving, or a happy thought, or even a scary emotion, without reacting in the moment in a way that amplifies the feeling or sends the mind spiraling off into thinking about old memories or anticipating events.

这种实践基于古印度佛教经典中首次描述的一种见解，即人类有能力观察经验而不陷入其中。这简单地意味着，我们可以观察到自己有渴望、快乐的想法，甚至恐惧的情绪，而不会在当下做出反应，以免放大这种感觉或让思绪陷入回忆过去或预想未来。

This practice of mindfulness can help calm the mind and the body as we learn not to react to experience with likes and dislikes or judgments of good and bad. It does not make us cold or indifferent but more fully present.

这种正念实践可以帮助我们平静心灵和身体，因为我们学会了不对经验做出喜好或好坏的判断反应。它不会使我们变得冷漠或无动于衷，而是让我们更加全然地临在。

One of the challenges of practicing mindfulness in our contemporary world is that there has been a profound transformation in human attention. The artist Jenny Odell argues that in our "attention economy" human attention has been transformed into a commodity that big corporations buy and sell. This economy rests on a technological revolution of mobile phones and social media that makes it possible for corporations to target our attention with their content at every moment.

在我们当代世界中实践正念的挑战之一是人类注意力发生了深刻转变。艺术家珍妮·奥德尔认为，在我们的“注意力经济”中，人类的注意力已经被转化为一种商品，供大公司买卖。这种经济建立在手机和社交媒体的技术革命之上，使得公司能够在每个时刻用他们的内容瞄准我们的注意力。

The devices most people use are a perpetual diversion from the present moment. The result is that it can feel as though our ability to focus, and be fully present, has been stolen. But mindfulness can help us resist the attention economy and relish the things that make life special, like being together with those we love.

大多数人使用的设备是对当下时刻的永久干扰。结果是，我们可能会感觉专注和全然临在的能力被偷走了。但正念可以帮助我们抵制注意力经济，并享受那些让生活特别的事物，比如与我们所爱的人在一起。

Most mindfulness research focuses on the individual benefits of the practice, but some scholars assert that we can not only practice mindfulness for ourselves but also practice it for others. It can help us build stronger, healthier relationships.

大多数正念研究关注实践对个人的益处，但一些学者主张，我们不仅可以为自己实践正念，还可以为他人实践。它可以帮助我们建立更强大、更健康的关系。

The sad truth is that living in the attention economy, most of us have become bad listeners. However, just as it is possible to watch ourselves having an experience without reacting, it's possible to watch another person have an experience without getting tied up in reactivity and judgment.

可悲的事实是，生活在注意力经济中，我们大多数人都成了糟糕的倾听者。然而，正如我们可以观察自己拥有一个经验而不做出反应一样，我们也可以观察另一个人拥有一个经验，而不陷入反应性和判断。

The gift of mindfulness is a practice of listening with compassion to others describe their experiences. To give this gift means putting away your phone, turning off social media, and setting aside other common distractions. It means practicing being fully present in another person's presence and listening to them with complete attention without judgment, while resisting the urge to make the interaction about you.

正念的礼物是一种带着同情心倾听他人描述他们经验的实践。给予这份礼物意味着收起手机、关闭社交媒体，并放下其他常见的干扰。它意味着练习在他人面前全然临在，以完全的注意力倾听他们，而不做判断，同时抵制让互动围绕自己的冲动。

If we judge the value of gifts based on their price, this gift may seem worthless, but in a distracted world, it is a precious one.

如果我们根据价格来判断礼物的价值，这份礼物可能看起来毫无价值，但在一个分心的世界里，它是一份珍贵的礼物。