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Climate Change Threatens Health 气候改变，健康生变

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Climate Change Threatens Health  气候改变，健康生变

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the environmental effects of global warming will be coupled with more threats to our health.

根据美国环保署的说法，地球暖化对环境造成的影响，将对我们的身体健康带来更多威胁。

The agency says that increasingly warmer temperatures will worsen heart and lung problems. What’s more, warmer temperatures will cause diseases to spread through food and water more quickly. Also, diseases that once only affected tropical regions, such as malaria, will be able to extend their effects to other areas.

该机构表示，逐渐上升的气温将使心肺疾病恶化；此外，较高的气温也将加快疾病经由食物及水传播的速度；而原本在热带地区才有的疾病，如疟疾，也将扩大其影响区域。

This problem has drawn attention all around the world. The World Health Organization has even made “protecting health from climate change” the theme of this year’s World Health Day.

此问题已引起全球关注，世界卫生组织甚至以「预防气候变化危害身体」为今年世界卫生日主题。

It Adds Up to Happiness  快乐的公式

People everywhere are on a continual quest to find out how to be truly happy. Now, psychologists have broken this quest down into a simple formula: pleasure + engagement + meaning = happiness.

各地人们不断追寻如何才能真正快乐。现在心理学家将这个追寻分解成一个简单的公式：乐趣＋投入＋意义＝幸福。

The problem with pleasure is that it can be lost just as easily as it can be found. That’s why engagement, the feeling we get when we are immersed in what we are doing, is so important. We also need meaning; in other words, we need to be involved in something that we really believe in. Psychologists admit that this formula is not a miracle cure for the blues, but they say that if one really works at being happy, then it is possible to become happier.

乐趣的问题在于它可能来得快，去得也快，这正是为何投入──当我们全心全意做一件事时──会如此重要。人也需要意义，也就是说，我们必须从事真正符合自己理念的事。心理学家承认，这个公式并非对抗忧郁的万灵丹，不过他们认为，一个人如果真的努力追求快乐，就有可能变得比较快乐。

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Vocabulary

单词发音

threaten [ˋθrɛtn] v. 威胁

couple with .与…一起, 连同…  to connect or join to something

increasingly [ɪnˋkrisɪŋlɪ] adv. 渐增地；越来越多地

engagement [ɪnˋgedʒmənt] n. 投入

immerse [ɪˋmɝs] v. 使埋首于；使深陷于[（+in）]

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单词发音

worsen [ˋwɝsn] v.（使）更坏；（使）恶化

malaria [məˋlɛrɪə] n. 疟疾

quest [kwɛst] n. 寻找；追求；探索

break down into 把…分解成  separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

work at  从事于  to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something