世界节假日博览 第149期:世界预防自杀日

 　　World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) is a day we should all put on our calendars. It highlights a huge but often ignored problem in our society. Every year thousands of people take their own lives. Around 3,000 people a day commit suicide. Another 60,000 a day attempt suicide. WSPD promotes ways to identify possible suicide cases and to prevent suicide. The day is organized by the International Association for Suicide Prevention. This important group acts as a forum¹ for academics, mental health professionals, and suicide survivors² to work together to understand suicide better. They raise awareness³ that suicide is a preventable cause of hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world.

　　世界预防自杀日是我们应该铭记的节日。它凸显了社会上存在的巨大而又常被忽视的问题。每年数千人自杀。一天大约有3000千人自杀，6万人试图自杀。世界预防自杀日提升了识别可能的自杀事件及预防自杀的途径。世界预防自杀日是由国际预防自杀协会组织的。这一重要组织为学者，心理健康专家和自杀未遂者举办了座谈会，使他们通力合作，更好地理解自杀。他们逐渐意识到自杀是世界上成百上千人死亡的原因，但可预防。

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　　The word suicide comes from Latin, meaning to kill oneself. There are many factors that lead to someone taking their own life. These include depression, shame, physical pain, anxiety, and relationship problems. A growing reason nowadays is financial difficulties. There is a sudden increase in suicide in rich nations when there is a downturn in the economy. Another worrying trend is the number of young people who resort to suicide because of bullying⁴. Suicide is in fact one of the leading causes of death among teenagers and young adults. In Japan, there are Internet suicide clubs so you can end your life with others who are equally desperate. A hot topic today is assisted suicide – helping⁵ another person end his or her life.

　　自杀一词来自拉丁语，意为杀死自己。许多因素可导致人们自杀，包括抑郁、羞辱、身体的疼痛、焦虑和人际关系。现在一个日益滋生的原因是经济困境。当经济下滑时，富国的自杀率突然激增。另一个令人担心的趋势是年轻人因为被欺凌而自杀的人数增多。实际上，自杀是青少年和青年死亡的主要因素之一。在日本，有一个网上自杀俱乐部，你可以与其他相当绝望的人一起自杀。现在的一个热点话题就是协助自杀——帮助他人自杀。

　　1.put on our calendars 列入日程

　　例句：Do not call team meetings indiscriminately, and don’t put them on the calendar every week so that people take them for granted.

　　不要轻易召开团队会议，更不要将其列入日程，让大家认为是理所当然的。

　　2.take their own lives 自杀

　　例句：Rather than take their own lives, many more workers at Foxconn — tens of thousands more — have simply quit.

　　与其放弃自己的生命，富士康更多的员工（超过上万名员工）选择放弃这份工作。

　　3.commit suicide 自杀

　　例句：

　　So in a letter to her principal, she threatened to commit suicide if her parents pulledher out of school.

　　因此，她在给校长的一封信里表明，如果父母强迫她离开学校，她就自杀。

　　4.raise awareness

　　例句：At its headquarters in Geneva, WHO will host a seminar to raise awareness on therights of persons with disabilities.

　　世卫组织将在其日内瓦总部主办一个研讨会，以提高对残疾人的权利的认识。

1 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。

4 bullying   

v.恐吓，威逼( bully的现在分词 )；豪；跋扈

参考例句：

• Many cases of bullying go unreported . 很多恐吓案件都没有人告发。
• All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with. 所有以大欺小的情况都将受到严肃处理。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。