1.Essentially, anxiety is a fear of the unknown.
从本质上讲，焦虑是对未知的恐惧。
2.But it is also a call to the unknown.
但它也是对未知的呼唤。
3.While it may seem counterintuitive, one of our great problems today is too little anxiety, at least of a certain kind.
虽然这似乎有悖常理，但我们今天的一个大问题就是焦虑太少，至少是在某个方面是这样。
4.As the psychologist Rollo May and before him philosophers Paul Tillich and Soren Kierkegaard contended, a modicum of anxiety is necessary—and indeed urgent—to live a vital and fulfilled life; at least for many of us.
正如心理学家罗洛·梅以及在他之前的哲学家保罗·蒂利希和索伦·克尔凯果所主张的那样，要想过上充满活力和充实的生活，一点点焦虑是必要的，甚至是急需的;至少对我们很多人来说是这样。
5.These observations of anxiety have turned out to be even more prophetic today.
这些关于焦虑的观察结果在今天看来更加具有了预见性。
6.For today we have so many means to avoid anxiety, any kind of anxiety.
今天我们有很多方法来避免焦虑，任何一种焦虑。
7.Let me count a few of the ways (some of which are admittedly beneficial in some circumstances):
让我来列举一些方法(其中一些在某些情况下确实是有益的):
8.Our tech industry gives us ample means to make instant but remote connections with people; enables relationships to be conducted in the comfort of our highly controllable and familiar silos; provides us with instant directions when we're out on the road; and gives us instant answers to our everyday questions, like what the side effects are of a pill, or how you define clinical depression, or where to get that sweater you like.
我们的科技行业为我们提供了充分的手段与人们建立即时但远程的联系;使关系能够在我们高度可控和熟悉的环境中进行;当我们在路上时，它为我们提供了即时的方向;它能立即回答我们的日常问题，比如药片的副作用是什么，如何定义临床抑郁症，在哪里买到你喜欢的毛衣。
9.It provides us with instant entertainment and books, and it allows us to "cancel" people without having to deal with the consequences of our decisions.
它为我们提供了即时的娱乐和书籍，它允许我们“取关”一些人们，而不必处理我们这种决定的后果。
10.We also find instant answers in many of our political leaders and ideologies today.
今天，我们在许多政治领导人和意识形态中也能立即找到答案。
11.The leader or ideology that can squeeze a provocative message into a tweet can rally thousands, even millions, to march or even riot.
能把挑衅性信息塞到推特上的领导人或某种思想，可以召集数千人、甚至数百万人游行，甚至引发骚乱。
12.The soundbites we get on social media or television can condense political messages into readily-digestible slogans or calls for action.
我们在社交媒体或电视上听到的言论可以将政治信息浓缩成易于理解的口号或行动呼吁。
13.The look or style of our leaders can sometimes have more sway than the substance of their messages.
我们的领导人的外表或风格有时比他们信息的实质更有影响力。
14.Many search for solutions in popping pills or simplistic creeds, whereas others find comfort in easy divisions of "us vs. them," "truth vs. falsity," or "winning vs. losing."
许多人在药片或简单的信条中寻找解决办法，而另一些人则在“我们与他们”、“真实与虚假”或“胜利与失败”等简单的划分中找到安慰。
15.Yet few of these "remedies" actually resolve the complex issues of getting along together as families, communities, and nations, let alone individual personalities.
然而，这些“补救措施”很少能真正解决家庭、社区和国家之间相处的复杂问题，更不用说个人性格了。
16.Even psychology has a tendency to avoid anxiety through its stress on overt and measurable behavior as distinct from the complex and often ambiguous experiences of living.
甚至心理学也有一种避免焦虑的倾向，即通过强调公开的、可测量的行为与复杂的、常常是模糊的生活体验不同的方式。
17.As the great observer of human folly Blaise Pascal put it some 370 years ago, "the heart has reasons that reason knows not."
正如人类愚蠢行为的伟大观察者布莱斯·帕斯卡尔大约370年前所言:“心有理性所不知道的理由。”
18.How much has our stress on "happiness" or "seven steps to success" pervaded our mindset in psychology rather than the more messy yet likely accurate recognition of the great paradoxes that beset human life, like the fact that we are in the process of dying the very moment we're living, or that love and sorrow are so often intermixed, or that meaningful engagements can be and often are riddled with doubt?
在心理学上，我们对“幸福”或“七步成功”的强调在多大程度上渗透了我们的心态，而不是对困扰人类生活的巨大矛盾的更混乱但可能准确的认识，比如我们活着的那一刻正处于死亡的过程中，爱和悲伤经常混杂在一起，或者有意义的活动可能而且经常充满怀疑?
19.Of course, arguably, the most perilous example of anxiety avoidance in our society—and many others—is the heavy reliance on weaponry to resolve both personal and international disputes.
当然，可以说，在我们的社会中——以及其他许多社会中——逃避焦虑最危险的例子是严重依赖武器来解决个人和国际争端。
20.Our society is permeated by guns.
我们的社会充斥着枪支。
21.Some politicians seem only too ready to send us into war at the slightest provocation, and too many civilians are quick to resort to armaments—or discharge them in the most heinous acts of revenge.
一些政客似乎动不动就把我们送上战场，太多的平民迅速诉诸武力——或者以最令人发指的报复行动来动用武力。
22.It is for these reasons that I call for a renewed appreciation for anxiety—an appreciation that would preempt a lot of the mayhem we see in the world.
正是由于这些原因，我呼吁对焦虑重新认识——这种认识将阻止我们在世界上看到的许多混乱。
23.The term I have chosen for this preemptive anxiety is "life-enhancing anxiety."
我为这种先发制人的焦虑选择的词语是“生活提升焦虑”。
25.Life-enhancing anxiety is the dynamic emancipatory anxiety that bolsters our vitality in living.
生活提升焦虑是一种动态的、解放的焦虑，它能增强我们生活的活力。
25.It is the signal that we are awake and alive, exploring new fields, and experiencing fresh discoveries.
它是一个信号，表明我们是清醒的，有活力的，正在探索新的领域，正在经历新的发现。
26.It is the anxiety of poignant and meaningful relationships, profound experiences of awe, the vibrance of creativity, and the richness of intercultural exchange.
它是深刻而有意义的关系带来的焦虑，是对敬畏的深刻体验，是创造力的活力，是文化交流的丰富多彩。
27.How do we cultivate life-enhancing anxiety?
那么我们要如何培养能提升生活的焦虑呢?
28.This is the basis of a very long conversation (and a book I'm working on), but I think we can start by looking much more critically at the conditions we co-create both as caretakers and cultures; what we encourage in regard to livelihood; and what we emphasize in our politics and cultural leadership.
这是一段很长的对话(以及我正在写的一本书)的基础，但我认为我们可以从更严格地审视我们作为照顾者和文化共同创造的条件开始;我们在民生方面鼓励什么;以及我们在政治和文化上要强调什么样领导力。
29.In short, I define life-enhancing anxiety as anxiety that enables us to live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence; and it is integral to if not foundational for a sane and flourishing world.
简而言之，我把改善生活的焦虑定义为:使我们能够与存在的深度和奥秘共存，并最大限度地利用这种焦虑;它是一个健全而繁荣的世界不可或缺的，哪怕不是基础的话。
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