雅思口說｜口說語料庫【Part 3：情緒(三)】

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1. depends on our capacity to master the mechanisms of Emotional Education before it is too late

決定於我們能否及時地完善情感教育的機制

We are evolved monkeys with nuclear weapons. It appears that the fate of civilisation now depends on our capacity to master the mechanisms of Emotional Education before it is too late.

我們進化成了掌握著核武器的猴子。我人類文明的命運決定於我們能否及時地完善情感教育的機制。

2. extends far beyond formal education as we have conceived of it to date遠超出我們現在所理解的正式教育的範疇

Emotional Education extends far beyond formal education as we have conceived of it to date.

情感教育遠超出我們現在所理解的正式教育的範疇。

3. is more than something that should take place in classrooms 不應只停留在課堂

4. come to a halt around the age of twenty-one 在21歲左右的年紀嘎然而止

Though it should ideally include specialised courses in every year of school or college, Emotional Education is more than something that should take place in classrooms at the hands of teachers and come to a halt around the age of twenty-one.

雖然它理應包含在每一個學年的課程中，情感教育也不應只停留在老師和課堂而在21歲左右的年紀嘎然而止。

5. the central vehicle for the transfer 傳輸的主要管道

6. be embedded in a TV series嵌入在一部電視劇裡

The central vehicle for the transfer of Emotional Intelligence is culture, from its highest to its most popular level. Culture is the field that can ritualise and consistently promote the absorption of wisdom. The ‘lessons’ of culture might be embedded in a tragedy or a TV series, a pop song or a novel, a work of architecture or a YouTube film.

情感智力傳輸的主要管道是文化，從高雅到流行。文化可以儀式化和穩定的推動智慧的吸收。文化的“課程”可以嵌入在一齣戲劇、一部電視劇、小說和歌曲，乃至建築和網路影片之中

7. point us towards greater emotional intelligence 引領我們獲取更高情感智力

We can envisage the entire apparatus of culture as a subtle mechanism designed to point us towards greater emotional intelligence. We will never progress as a species, and will indeed grow into ever greater technologically-armed menaces to ourselves, until we have accepted the challenges and opportunities of properly educating our selves in Emotional Intelligence.

整個文化可以被看作是一個引領我們獲取更高情感智力的巧妙機關，只有我們接受了合適的情感教育所帶來的機遇和挑戰，人類作為一個物種才可能真正的進步。而不僅僅是為自己建築一個又一個高技術的威脅

8. seductively teach the rudiments of Emotional Intelligence 微妙地傳授情緒智力的基礎

Our Technical Intelligence is great of course. It’s led us to tame nature and conquer this planet. But a wiser, saner future for the race must depend on a capacity to master and then seductively teach the rudiments of Emotional Intelligence. 我們的技術智力當然是可觀的。是它讓我們得以馴化自然和征服我們的環境。但如果我們想要一個更清醒和明智的未來，那只能建立在我們掌握和微妙地傳授情緒智力的基礎上