??Day17 人類簡史筆記17
1??Friends giving advice often tell each other, ‘Follow your heart.’ But the heart?is a?double agent?that usually?takes its instructions from the dominant myths of the day, and?the very?recommendation to ‘Follow your heart’ was implanted in our minds by a combination of nineteenth-century Romantic myths and twentieth-century consumerist myths.?
朋友們給建議時往往會互相告訴對方:“跟隨你的心”翼抠。但是這里的“心”也是個雙面間諜墨坚,常常聽從時代主流虛構的故事限次】富“跟隨你的心”這一提議也 不過是?19?世紀浪漫主義和?20?世紀消費主義的結合,再植入我們的腦海里罷了悍汛。
2??Romanticism, which encourages variety, meshes perfectly with consumerism.?Their marriage has given birth to?the infinite ‘market of experiences’, on which the modern tourism industry is founded. The tourism industry does not sell flight tickets and hotel bedrooms. It sells experience.
浪漫主義鼓勵多樣性捞魁,與消費主義完美結合在。它們的結合孕育了無 限的“經(jīng)歷市場”离咐,現(xiàn)代旅游業(yè)就是在這個市場上得以建立的谱俭。旅游業(yè)銷售的不 是機票和酒店客房,而是經(jīng)歷宵蛀。
3??If an ability, approach, or type of activity is hard-wired into the brain, it is a basic one and cannot be changed.?
4??a?change of such?magnitude 重大改變
5??The hall was sumptuously decorated.?大廳裝飾得富麗堂皇昆著。