轻松英语：聊聊放松

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大家好，欢迎收听《真正简单英语》。在本播客中，我们会用简单英语进行真实对话来帮助你学习。我是贝丝。

Hello and welcome to Real Easy English. In this podcast, we have real conversations in Easy English to help you learn. I'm Beth.

我是尼尔。别忘了，你可以在我们的网站@bbclearningenglish.com观看本期播客的视频版，并阅读字幕帮助理解。

And I'm Neil. Don't forget, you can watch a video version of this podcast and read the subtitles to help you understand on our website @bbclearningenglish.com.

嗨，尼尔。你好吗？

Hi, Neil. How are you?

我很好，贝丝。你呢？

I'm very well, Beth. How are you?

我挺好的，感觉很放松。你呢？

I'm good. I'm feeling relaxed. Are you?

我感到很放松。

I am feeling relaxed.

嗯，这很好，因为我们今天要讨论的就是放松。当你放松时，活动量会减少，心情也会平静愉悦。

Well, that's good because today we are talking about relaxing. If you relax, then you do less activity and you are calm and happy.

听起来不错。我们开始吧？

Sounds great. Shall we start?

我觉得可以开始了。那么尼尔，你觉得哪些事情能让你放松？

I think we should. So Neil, what sorts of things do you find relaxing?

对我来说，做一些与之前完全不同的事情能让我放松，比如工作后去烹饪、弹吉他，甚至跑步锻炼。这些都能让我放松。

Well, I find doing something really different to the thing I was doing before, like work, relaxing. So if I have been working, sometimes I like to cook, to relax, or maybe play my guitar, Or even go for a run, do some exercise. I find that relaxing.

是啊，我也觉得烹饪能让人放松。不过说实话，只有在厨房里听着音乐或播客、独自一人时，我才能真正放松下来，随心所欲地做事。

Yeah. I also think that cooking can be relaxing. But to be honest, I only really relax in the kitchen if I also have some music on or a podcast and if I'm in the kitchen on my own. And then I can just do whatever I want to.

贝丝，听起来在厨房听音乐能帮你转换状态。这里的‘转换状态’指的是停止思考之前可能让你感到压力的事情。

So Beth, it sounds like listening to music in the kitchen helps you switch off. Now switch off means stop thinking about the thing you were doing before that maybe causes you stress.

是的。如果你能放空自己，就一定能放松。我发现音乐，听音乐确实能让人放松。这绝对能帮我转移注意力，无论我在做什么，无论是做饭还是洗碗、叠衣服这类无聊的事情。只要放着音乐，我就会专注于音乐，可能会跟着唱或者只是听。

Yeah. If you switch off, you definitely relax. And I do find music, listening to music relaxing. It definitely helps me switch off because whatever I'm doing, whether it's cooking or even something boring like doing the the washing up or or folding laundry. If I have music on, then I just focus on the music, maybe sing along or just listening.

这真的能让我忘记其他所有事情。

And that really takes my mind off everything else.

你平时怎么休息？休息就是什么都不做，从忙碌中恢复过来。

What do you do to rest? Rest means kind of do nothing in order to recover from being busy.

休息的话，我特别喜欢泡澡时看书。这真的能帮我放松和休息。你呢？

To rest. I really enjoy having a bath and reading a book in the bath. That really helps me to to relax and rest. What about you?

我不太擅长休息。因为我觉得无聊时会感到难过。所以对我来说，做些活动反而更容易放松。

I'm not very good at resting. Oh. Because I think I get bored and sad. So for me to relax, it's better to do something active. Yeah.

这样之后我会感觉更放松，就像已经休息过一样。

And then I feel more relaxed and like I've had a rest.

是啊，有时候休息时我会感到内疚，因为觉得‘我不该这样，我还有这个那个要做’。虽然有点难，但我觉得放松和休息很重要，毕竟我们需要这些来让自己整体感觉更好，对吧？

Yeah. Sometimes I feel guilty when I rest because I think, oh, I shouldn't be doing this. I need to do this, this and this. And I find it a bit hard, but I think relaxing and taking a break is very important because we need it to make ourselves feel better generally, don't we?

完全正确。

Absolutely.

好的。让我们回顾一下对话中使用的词汇，从‘放松’开始。如果你放松，就是减少活动，保持平静和快乐。我们也可以用‘令人放松的’来形容一项活动，意思是它能让你感到平静和快乐。

Okay. Let's recap the language we use during the conversation, starting with relax. If you relax, you do less activity and you are calm and happy. And we can also describe an activity as relaxing and that means it makes you feel calm and happy.

我们还听到了‘切换状态’，意思是停止思考有压力的事情。

We also heard switch off which means to stop thinking about stressful things.

我们还听到了‘休息’，意思是停止做事以便放松。比如，当我想休息时，我会泡个澡看看书。

We also heard rest which means stop doing things so that you can relax. For example, when I want to rest, I have a bath and read a book.

我们还听到了‘转移注意力’，意思是停止思考一件事转而思考另一件事。例如，我喜欢看足球比赛，它能让我忘记工作的压力。

And we heard take your mind off something, which means stop thinking about one thing and start thinking about another. For example, I like to watch football. It takes my mind off the stressful day of work.

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That's it for this episode of Real Easy English. Why not test what you've learnt with the worksheets over on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

下周我们将带来另一期《简单英语真实对话》。现在先道别了。

We'll be back next week with another Real Conversation in Easy English. Goodbye for now.

再见。

Goodbye.