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options close. (Para. 8)

Meaning: Keeping future options available was only an excuse. What students couldn’t bear was the immediate but momentary pain of watching options disappear.

22 “Closing a door on an option is experienced as a loss, and people are willing to pay a big price to avoid the emotion of loss,” Dr. Ariely says. (Para. 8)

Meaning beyond words: According to Dr. Ariely, closing a door on an option is felt as a loss. To avoid such an emotional loss, people would rather pay the high cost to keep all the doors of opportunity open.

23 In the experiment, the price was easily measured in lost cash. In life, the corresponding costs are often less obvious such as wasted time or missed opportunities. (Para. 8)

Meaning beyond words: In the experiment, the cost of keeping options open could be easily counted in lost cash, while in life the cost cannot be easily measured.

9 \Dr. Ariely writes. \the childhood of our sons and daughters is slipping away.\

9 “有时候，这些门是慢慢关闭的，我们没有看到它们在悄然消失，”阿雷利博士写道：“我们可能花很多时间在工作上，却没有意识到我们子女的童年正在悄悄溜走。”

24 “Sometimes these doors are closing too slowly for us to see them vanishing,” Dr. Ariely writes. “We may work more hours at our jobs without realizing that the childhood of our sons and daughters is slipping away.” (Para. 9)

Meaning: According to Dr. Ariely, sometimes the doors in real life are closing slowly, so we don’t really see the future opportunities vanishing away visually. This is just like when we work long hours, we hardly notice that the childhood of our sons and daughters is disappearing. Meaning beyond words: People are indifferent to the things which seem to be intangible and trivial to them. They keep themselves busy all the time, but they actually lose a lot in life.

10 So, what can be done to restore balance in our lives? One answer, Dr. Ariely says, is to implement more prohibitions on overbooking. We can work to reduce options on our own, delegating tasks to others and even giving away ideas for others to pursue. He points to marriage as an example, \we create a situation where we promise ourselves not to keep options open. We close doors and announce to others we've closed doors.\

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10 那么，我们可以做些什么让我们的生活恢复平衡呢？阿雷利博士说，一个办法是制止更多的超额预约。 我们可以自己减少选择，将任务委派给其他人，甚至放弃一些点子，让其他人去做。 他用婚姻作为例子：“在婚姻中，我们承诺不保留选择机会，我们就创造了获得最佳选择的有利局面。我们关上可选择的门，并告诉别人我们已作出选择。”

27 We can work to reduce options on our own, delegating tasks to others and even giving away ideas for others to pursue. (Para. 10)

Meaning: We can take the initiative to close our doors with too many options: Ask others to do our tasks and even give others our ideas to let them carry out our ideas.

28 He points to marriage as an example, “In marriage, we create a situation where we promise ourselves not to keep options open. We close doors and announce to others we’ve closed doors.” (Para. 10)

Meaning beyond word: Marriage is a good example when talking about closing doors of options in order to open windows of opportunity. We tell others that we are married and close the door to new relationships. Doing so makes our marriage successful. 25 So, what can be done to restore balance in our lives? (Para. 10)

Meaning: The tendency to keep all our doors open might have damaged our life already, but what can we do to make our life balanced again? 26 One answer, Dr. Ariely says, is to implement more prohibitions on overbooking. (Para. 10)

Meaning beyond words: In Dr. Ariely’s opinion, one way is to take action to limit the amount of things we schedule in our daily lives and to reduce the amount of things we plan to do in the future. We should simplify our lives. overbook: v. sell more tickets than you have available 超额预订；超额订出

Planes are crowded, airlines overbook, and departures are almost never on time. 飞机拥挤不堪，航空公司超额售票，起飞时间几乎从未准点过。

Unfortunately, there has been a major problem with overbooking rooms among the hotels here. 不幸的是，超额预订房间一直是这里的酒店一个主要的问题。

Note: The word overbook is a compound verb from the combination of over and book. Prefix over- combines with verbs to form new verbs. Words formed in this way indicate an action is done to a too large extent.

11 Since conducting the door experiment, Dr. Ariely says he has made a conscious effort to lessen his load. He urges the rest of us to resign from committees, prune holiday card lists, rethink hobbies and remember the lessons of door closers like Xiang Yu.

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11 阿雷利博士说，自从进行了这个点击门的实验，他已经有意识地努力减轻自己的负担。 他敦促我们辞去委员会的工作，删减送节日贺卡的名单，重新思考兴趣爱好，并记住像项羽那样的关门者给我们的启示。

29 Since conducting the door experiment, Dr. Ariely says he has made a conscious effort to lessen his load. He urges the rest of us to resign from committees, prune holiday card lists, rethink hobbies and remember the lessons of door closers like Xiang Yu. (Para. 11)

Meaning: Since the door experiment, Dr. Ariely has consciously reduced his load. He urges people to quit committees, cut holiday activities, reconsider hobbies and learn the lessons from door closers like General Xiang Yu.

12 In other words, Dr. Ariely is encouraging us to discard those things that seem to have outward merit in favor of those things that actually enrich our lives. We are naturally prejudiced to believe that more is better, but Dr. Ariely's research provides a dose of reality that strongly suggests otherwise.

12 换言之，他是鼓励我们放弃那些似乎只有表面价值的东西，而去追求那些能真正丰富我们生活的东西。 我们很自然、很偏执地相信选择越多越好，但阿雷利博士的研究却强有力地告诉我们事实并非如此。

30 In other words, Dr. Ariely is encouraging us to discard those things that seem to have outward merit in favor of those things that actually enrich our lives. (Para. 12) Meaning: That is to say, Dr. Ariely urges us to get rid of things that seem to have only surface value and to engage in those that can actually make our lives better. 31 We are naturally prejudiced to believe that more is better, but Dr. Ariely’s research provides a dose of reality that strongly suggests otherwise. (Para. 12) Meaning: We are biased by nature to believe that it is better to keep more doors open, but Dr. Ariely’s research tells us that in reality the opposite is true: More is not necessarily better. 13 What price do we pay for trying to have more and more in life? What pleasure and satisfaction can be derived from focusing our energy and attention in a more concentrated fashion? Surely, we will have our respective answers.

13 我们想在生活中得到越来越多选择的代价是什么？我们能从更集中的精力和注意力中获得什么样的喜悦和满足？ 当然，我们每个人都会有自己的答案。

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32 What price do we pay for trying to have more and more in life? What pleasure and satisfaction can be derived from focusing our energy and attention in a more concentrated fashion? Surely, we will have our respective answers. (Para. 13) Meaning: We have paid a big price to keep more options and more material things, but I believe we can get greater pleasure and more satisfaction by focusing our energy and attention to fewer options and things. Of course, each one of us will have a different opinion.

14 Consider these important questions: Will we have more by always increasing options or will we have more with fewer, carefully chosen options? What doors should we close in order to allow the right windows of opportunity and happiness to open?

14 试想一下这些重要的问题：怎么做会使我们获得更多，是不断增加选择，还是只保持少数精心挑选的选择？ 我们应关闭什么门，以便让机会和幸福之窗打开？

33 Consider these important questions: Will we have more by always increasing options or will we have more with fewer, carefully chosen options? What doors should we close in order to allow the right windows of opportunity and happiness to open? (Para. 14)

Meaning beyond words: Closing doors in order to open windows of opportunity or keeping all the doors open remains an important question to everyone. If you are a door closer, the next question is what doors you should close in order to allow for the right windows of opportunity and happiness to open. Note: The expression windows of opportunity is a high-frequency collocation meaning “an opportunity to do sth. that will only be available to you for a short time”, which implies individuals must be decisive before the windows close. The text indicates that closing the doors of irrelevant options is to open the windows of opportunity for success and happiness, but leaving too many doors open results in the windows of opportunity being closed.

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