You must accept imperfection and flaws.?

你必須接受不完美和瑕疵。

Many people believe that if they just collect a house, a spouse, a car, and 2.5 children, everything will be “perfect.” Life has a checklist. Problems don’t go away, they change and evolve. And the quicker we accept that the point of life is progress, and not perfection, the sooner we can all order a pizza and go home.?

很多人認(rèn)為，如果他們能夠購買一套房子、找到一個(gè)配偶、配置一輛車、養(yǎng)育兩三個(gè)孩子，那么一切都會(huì)“完美”。生活中有一個(gè)清單。但問題永遠(yuǎn)都不會(huì)消失，它們只會(huì)改變和發(fā)展。人生的意義在于進(jìn)步，而非完美，我們接收這一觀點(diǎn)越快，我們生活就會(huì)越從容，就能越早點(diǎn)一個(gè)披薩然后回家。

Perfection is an idealization. It’s something that is approached but never reached. Whatever your conception of “perfect” is in your pretty little head, it is in itself, an imperfect concept.?

完美是一種理想化的東西，它是一種可以無限接近但永遠(yuǎn)無法到達(dá)。在你的小心思里，無論你認(rèn)為“完美”的是什么，事實(shí)上它就是它本身，它本身就是一個(gè)不完美的概念。

There is no perfect. There is only what you wish in your head.?

世上不存在完美的東西，那只是你心中美好的愿望。

We don’t get to decide what perfection is. We don’t know. All we can know is what is better or worse than what is now. And even then we’re often wrong.?

我們不能決定什么是完美。我們也不知道。我們所能知道的是什么比現(xiàn)在更好或更糟。即使這樣，我們也經(jīng)常犯錯(cuò)。

When we let go of our concept of what is perfect and what “should” be, we relieve ourselves of the stress and frustration of living up to some arbitrary standard. And usually this standard isn’t even ours! It’s a standard we adopted from other people.?

當(dāng)我們放棄心中對完美的概念以及對世界應(yīng)該如何的執(zhí)念時(shí)，我們就會(huì)減輕自己一定要達(dá)到某種裁定標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的壓力和挫敗感。通常這個(gè)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)甚至不是我們的，這是我們從別人那里拿過來的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。

Accepting imperfection is hard, because it forces us to accept that we have to live with things we don’t like.?

接受不完美并不容易，因?yàn)樗仁刮覀兘邮苓@樣一個(gè)事實(shí)：我們必須要學(xué)會(huì)與我們不喜歡的東西一起生活。

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【重點(diǎn)詞匯&表達(dá)】

1.imperfection

? 不完美；瑕疵；缺點(diǎn)；

2.flaw [fl??]

? 瑕疵，缺點(diǎn)；

3.spouse [spa?z]

? 配偶；

4.checklist ['t?ekl?st]

? 清單；檢查表；

5.go away

? 走開；離開；

6.evolve [?'v?lv]

? 發(fā)展；進(jìn)化；

7.the point of life

? 人生的重點(diǎn)；

8.idealization [a?'d??l?'ze??n]

? 理想化；理想化的事物；

9.let go of sth.

? 放手…；放開…；

10.frustration [fr?'stre??n]

? 挫折；

11.live up to

? 不辜負(fù)；做到；

12.arbitrary ['ɑ?b?t(r?)r?]

? 隨意的；武斷的；專制的

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