以下内容选自“杨凡英语学习丛书-拓展写作思路”

Don’t postpone exercising.
要坚持锻炼身体。

Even if it’s just moving around your living room to music that you love, getting your body active will help the healing process.
哪怕是随着你所喜爱的音乐在起居室里活动。能使身体活动起来就有助于恢复健康。

Be careful and watchful. Less stress will lead to a longer, healthier and happier life.
务必小心警惕。少一份压力会使你过上更加幸福、健康、长寿的生活。

If you start following the tips outlined today, then you’ve just taken the first step to living a healthy, successful and happy life!
如果你今天就开始执行以上的建议，则你迈出了过上健康、成功、快乐生活的第一步。

I see two kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure.
我发觉今天的大学生有两种压力：经济压力和来自父母的压力。

It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the parents for pushing their children too far. But there are no villains, only victims.
环顾四周你很容易发觉一些叛逆者，他们指责学校收费太高，来自父母的压力太大。但他们不是叛逆者，而是受害者。

The pressure is heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job.
对于那些只想从大学毕业并且找到一个工作的人来说，压力是很大的。

Long gone are the days when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses that would send them out as liberally educated men and women.
曾记何时学生们通过很轻松地选择许多课程来度过大学时光，从而成为大学通才教育的产物。但这种时光已一去不复返。

If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I don’t know if they are getting As or Cs, and I don’t care. I don’t know if they are getting As or Cs, and I don’t care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They can’t.
如果我是雇主，我宁愿雇佣那些有好奇心的博学之才而不是那些只选一些易过的且能达高分的课程的学生。我认识无数学生，他们的好奇之心使我兴奋不已，因为我喜欢听他们阐述自己的观点，我不知道他们是得A 还是得C，我不在乎这些。我也同样喜欢他们所散发出来的人性魅力。国家需要他们，他们也会找到自己满意的工作。我告诉他们要放松，但他们做不到。