新视野大学英语听说教程2 07a

　　Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life
If you often feel angry and overwhelmed,like the stress in your life is spinning out of control,then you may be hurting your heart.
If you don't want to break your own heart,you need to learn to take change of your life where you can --and recognize there are many things beyond your control.
So says Dr. Robert S. Eliot,author of a new book titled From Stress to Strenghth:How to Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life.He's a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Nebraska.
Eliot says there are people in this world that he calls"hot reactors²".For this people,being tense may cause tremendous and rapid increases in their blood pressure.
Eliot says researchers have found that stresses people have higher cholesterol³ levels,among other things."We've done years of work in showing that stress alarm or stress chemicals can literally⁴ burst heart muscle fibers⁵.When that happens it happensvery quickly,within five minutes.It creates many short circuits,and that causes crazy heart rhythms.The heart beats like a bag of worms instead of a pump.And when that happens,we can't live."
Eliot,64,suffered a heart attack at age 44.He attributes some of the cause to stress.For years he was a "hot reactor¹".On the exterior,he was cool,calm and collected,but on the interior,stress was killing⁶ him. He's now doing very well.
The main predictors of destructive levels of stress are the FUD factors--fear, uncertainty⁷ and doubt--together with perceived lack of control,he says.
For many people,the root of their stress is anger, and the trick is to find out where the anger is coming from."Does the anger come from a feeling that everything must be perfect?"Eliot asks.
"That's very common in professional women.They feel they have to be all people and do it all perfectly⁸.They think,'I should,I must,I have to.'Good enough is never good enough.Perfectionists cannot delegate.They get angry that they have to carry it all,and they blow their tops.Then they feel guilty and they start the whole cycle over again."
"Others are angry because they have no campass in life.And they give the same emphasis to a traffic jam that they give a family argument,"he says."If you are angry for more than five minutes--if you stir the anger within you and let it build with no safety outlet--you have to find out where it's coming from."
"What happens is that the hotter people get,physiologically,with mental stress,the more likely they are to blow apart with some heart problem."
One step to calming down is to recognize you have this tendency. learn to be less hostile by changing some of your attitudes and negative thinking.
Eliot recommends taking charge of your life."If there is one word that should be substituted for stress,it's control.Instead of the FUD factors,what you want is the NICE factors--new,interesting,challenging experiences."
"You have to decide what parts of your life you can control,"he saya."Stop where you are on yourtrail and say,'I'm going to get my compass out and find out what I need to do.'"
He suggests that people write down the six things in their lives that they feel are the most important things they'd like to achieve.Ben Franklin did it at age 32."He wrote down things like being a better father,being a better husband,being financially independent,being stimulated⁹ intellectually and remaining even-tempered --he wasn't good at that."
Eliot says you can first make a list of 12 things,then cut it downto 6 and set your priorities."Don't give yourself impossible things,but things that will affect your indentity,control and self-worth."
"Put them on a note card and take it with you and look at it when you need to.Since we can't create a 26-hour daywe have to decide what things we're going to do."
Keepin mind that over time these priorities are going to change."The kids grow up,the dog dies and you change your priorities."
From Eliot's viewpoint,the other key to controlling stress is to "realize that there are other troblesome parts of your life over which you can have little or no control--like the economy and politicians".
You have to realize that sometimes with things like traffic jams,deadllines and unpleasant bosses,"You can't fight.You can't flee.You have to learn how to flow."

1 reactor   

n.反应器；反应堆

参考例句：

• The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
• Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。

2 reactors   

起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 )； 反应装置； 原子炉； 核反应堆

参考例句：

• The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The earliest production reactors necessarily used normal uranium as fuel. 最早为生产用的反应堆，必须使用普通铀作为燃料。

3 cholesterol   

n.（U）胆固醇

参考例句：

• There is cholesterol in the cell of body.人体细胞里有胆固醇。
• They are determining the serum-protein and cholesterol levels.他们正在测定血清蛋白和胆固醇的浓度。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

5 fibers   

光纤( fiber的名词复数 )； （织物的）质地； 纤维，纤维物质

参考例句：

• Thesolution of collagen-PVA was wet spined with the sodium sulfate as coagulant and collagen-PVA composite fibers were prepared. 在此基础上，以硫酸钠为凝固剂，对胶原-PVA共混溶液进行湿法纺丝，制备了胶原-PVA复合纤维。
• Sympathetic fibers are distributed to all regions of the heart. 交感神经纤维分布于心脏的所有部分。

6 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

7 uncertainty   

n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物

参考例句：

• Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
• After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。

8 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

9 stimulated   

a.刺激的

参考例句：

• The exhibition has stimulated interest in her work. 展览增进了人们对她作品的兴趣。
• The award has stimulated her into working still harder. 奖金促使她更加努力地工作。