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HABITS FOR A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE 健康的生活方式需养成的习惯 Unit 2 Reading and thinking As teenagers grow up, they become more independent and start making their own decisions. 在成长过程中,青少年会变得越来越独立,并且开始自己做决定。 However, during this period, it can be easy for some of them to form bad habits. 然而,在这一时期,他们中的一部分人容易养成不良习惯。 These bad habits, if left unchecked, could lead to more serious ones when they become adults. 如果任其发展,在他们长大成人后,这些不良习惯可能会导致更为严重的有害习惯。 For example, some of them may become involved in tobacco or alcohol abuse, which can lead to physical and mental health problems. 例如,一些青少年可能吸烟成瘾或酗酒,造成身心健康问题。 To prevent harmful habits like these from dominating a teenager's life is essential. They must learn to recognise bad habits early and make appropriate changes.防止此类有害习惯主宰青少年的生活是至关重要的。他们必须学会早早认清不良习惯并作出适当的改变。 To change bad habits is never easy, even with many attempts. 改变不良习惯从来都不是一件容易的事情,即使你三番五次地尝试。 There is a famous saying based on the philosophy of Aristotle: "We are what we repeatedly do. " 有句基于亚里士多德哲学的名言:“我们反复做的事情造就了我们。” In many ways, our lifestyle is the sum of choices we have made. 从很多方面看,我们的生活方式是我们所作出的选择的总和。 We make a choice to do something, and then we repeat it over and over again. 我们选择做某件事,接着我们反反复复地做这件事。 Soon that choice becomes automatic and forms a habit that is much harder to change. 不久之后,这项选择就变得自然而然,成为一种更加难以改变的习惯。 The good news is that we can change, if we understand how habits work. 好消息是,如果我们了解习惯是怎么运作的,我们就可以作出改变。 According to modern psychology, we must first learn about the "habit cycle", which works like this:根据现代心理学,我们必须首先了解“习惯循环”,其工作原理如下: Firstly, there is a “cue” , an action, event,or situation that acts as a signal to do something.第一是“触发因素”,即一个行动、事件或状况,充当要做某事的讯号。 Secondly, there is a "routine", the regular action you take in response to the cue.第二是“惯常行为”,即你响应触发因素而采取的常规行动。 Thirdly, there is the "reward", the good thing or feeling we get from the routine.第三是“回报”,即我们从惯常行为中获得的美好事物或感受。 For example, when we feel unhappy (cue), we eat lots of unhealthy snacks (routine) which