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求知若渴Intellectual Curiosity：The Healthy Appetite of a Hungry Mind

找回求知欲 撼動人生領域 Recover the power of wonder

你是否曾對小孩下定決心就是要問不完的「為什麼」驚嘆不已？

「該洗澡囉！「為什麼？」「因為我們睡覺前都要洗澡啊。」「為什麼？」「因為我們要乾乾淨淨的。」「為什麼？」「因為髒髒的上床會讓人討厭！」「為什麼？」「因為， 嗯…因為我說了算！」「可是，為什麼？」

很不幸地，對我們許多人來說，我們與生俱來的好奇心老早就消失無蹤了。

你是否記得－在成長的責任吞噬我們之前－生活還有片刻能讓人感到驚奇的那段時光嗎？

你可還記得在強大商業媒體滲透進我們以消費為導向的日常生活然後殖民化我們心思意念之前的生活嗎？

沉浸在童年毫不受限的好奇心似乎與我們成年人的擔憂沒什麼關聯;又或者，那感覺起來只是一種我們沒有時間享受的奢侈品。

但是，這其實是大錯特錯的想法。

如果你在Google搜尋「求知欲」，可能會對自己看到的內容感到驚訝。

根據大量研究文獻，求知欲有助於學術暨專業面向的成功，而且對於人際關係也有正面影響。

那麼，這種令人震驚的強大性格特質到底是什麼呢?

marvel

We read: Have you ever marveled at the stamina of a 3-year-old who's in the... mood to ask why?

marvel（v.）（對…）感到驚奇，驚歎

to show or experience great surprise or admiration【to marvel at sb./sth. 對某人／某事感到驚訝】

We paused to marvel at the view.我們停下來，感歎景色之美。

I often marvel that humans can treat each other so badly.

人們竟可對他人如此惡劣，我時常感到驚詫不已。

"Just look at that waterfall! Isn't it amazing?" she marvelled.

「看那瀑布！真是令人驚歎，不是嗎？」她讚歎道。

marvel（n.）奇蹟；令人感到驚奇的事物（或人）

a thing or person that is very surprising or causes a lot of admiration

This miniature phone is the latest technological marvel from Japan.

這台微型電話是日本最新的科技奇蹟。

It's a marvel (to me) how they've managed to build the tunnel so quickly.

（我覺得）真不可思議，他們能這麼快就把隧道建好。

marvel sunrise

children can be a marvel.

sense of wonder驚奇感；驚異感；驚奇之心

stamina耐力；耐性；持久力

The triathlon is a great test of stamina.三項全能運動是對耐力的極大考驗。

to have/lack stamina 有／缺乏耐力

to have the stamina for sth./to do sth. 對某事物／做某事有耐性

yucky

The food in the school cafeteria is yucky. 學校自助餐廳裡的食物很難吃。

innate（adj.）天生的

Birds have an innate ability to know when to begin their migration and where to go.

與生俱來的

Sheila seems to have had the innate ability to walk and dance gracefully since she was very young. 與生俱來的能力

innately（adv.）

Whales, along with other sea creatures, innately know how to swim.

evaporate（v.）透過加熱使液體揮發或蒸發

It is so dry here that a glass of water I sat on the table last night had evaporated by this morning.

evaporate（v.）消失不見

After Julia disagreed with her boss at the departmental meeting, her rising career evaporated.

When the villagers saw their army enter their town, their fear of the enemy evaporated.

consume

He was consumed with jealousy.他心裡滿是嫉妒。【充滿（某種強烈的感情）】

As a teenager, I was consumed by passion for the boy next door.

十幾歲時，我對隔壁的男孩非常著迷。

Can you remember before the responsibilities of growing up consumed us when life had room for wonder?

a hungry mind

want to learn new things

in the lap of luxury含著金湯匙出生【lap腰部到膝蓋之間的部位】

This phrase means to live very comfortably because you have a lot of money.

The phrase gives a visual of being surrounded by luxury.

If you're sitting in the lap of luxury, you are surrounded by it.

The lifestyles of these ultra-rich people sometimes seem so different from the rest of us.

Let's give another example sentence.

'We can say the politician grew up in the lap of luxury.

So he did not win the trust of working-class voters and lost the election.

John grew up in the lap of luxury

saturate充滿；飽和；（使）充滿；飽和

During elections politicians saturate all forms of media with ads.

The smell of baking bread saturated the air inside and outside the bakery.

The police saturated (= a large number of police officers were sent into) the area.

大批員警被派往該地區。

saturated our consumer-oriented daily environments and colonized our mental landscapes

saturate飽和濕透；浸透；（使）飽和濕透；浸透

The ground is so saturated with water that everyone is worried about flooding.

His shirt was saturated with sweat. 他的襯衫上浸滿了汗水。

Indulge in the unbridled curiosity of childhood

Further from the truth

Intellectual curiosity

indulge（使）沉溺於；（尤指）放縱

to allow yourself or another person to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you

The soccer fans indulged their patriotism, waving flags and singing songs.

足球迷搖著旗唱著歌，縱情抒發他們的愛國熱情。

I love champagne but I don't often indulge myself.

我愛喝香檳，但一般都有節制。

We took a deliberate decision to indulge in a little nostalgia鄉愁；懷舊之情.

我們特意決定好好追憶一下往事。

astonish震驚；驚訝

Eric was astonished to learn he had placed first in the speech contest.

astonishment （n.）.驚訝；驚愕[U]；令人驚訝的事物[C]

Riley looked at her counselor in astonishment when he told her she had been offered a scholarship to Cambridge University.

To the astonishment of her colleagues, she resigned.

她竟然辭職了，這讓她的同事們大吃一驚。

She gasped in astonishment.

她吃驚得倒抽了一口氣。

astonishing （adj.）令人驚訝的；驚人的

The band became an astonishing success, seemingly overnight.

Numerous

landscape（n.）

（陸上的）風景，景色[C]

From the hill he looked down on the peaceful landscape. 他站在山上眺望下面的寧靜景色。

風景畫，山水畫[C]；風景繪畫（或攝影）[U]

She preferred a good landscape to a portrait. 較之人像畫她更喜歡美麗的風景畫。

a rural/barren landscape 鄉村／荒原

The landscape is dotted with the tents of campers and hikers.

鄉間散佈著宿營者和遠足者搭起的帳篷。

The cathedral dominates the landscape for miles around.

大教堂在方圓數英里的鄉間高高聳立著。

（v.）在（一片土地）上造園；從事景觀美化（或園藝）工作

We're having the hotel grounds landscaped. 我們在旅館的庭院裡建造園林。

to colonize使殖民地化；將…建為殖民地

to send people to live in and govern another country

Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the 16th century.

秘魯在16世紀淪為西班牙的殖民地

metaphor （n.）隱喻（一種修辭法）；象徵

"The mind is an ocean" and "the city is a jungle" are both metaphors.

「思維是海洋」和「城市是叢林」都是隱喻。

And so these ideas and these companies are really colonizing our mental landscapes.

unbridled（adj.）（馬等）無轡頭的；無拘束的；放縱的

It says indulging in the unbridled curiosity of childhood.

Well, a bridle makes me think of a horse, uh, because there's a kind of something you put inside the horse's mouth that can help you steer the horse, tell it where to go.

And that's really how childhood is.

Curiosity and childhood is unbridled.

not controlled or limited

不受控制的；無限的

unbridled ambition/enthusiasm/lust無限的野心／熱情／激情

You don't have a lot of grown-up concerns in your childhood.

Yeah. You don't have to adult.

You know, I just used that word "adult" as a verb.

adulating（v.）做大人該做的事情

Adulting is so hard! I miss my college days.做成年人好幸苦啊！真懷念大學的日子。

I had gummy bears today as breakfast. #Adulting

我今天吃了小熊軟糖當早餐。#Adulting

adult過分稱讚（或敬仰）；諂媚

to admire or praise someone very much, especially when this is more than is deserved

The boxer was convicted of rape, and yet is still adulated by many.

這名拳擊手被認定強姦罪名成立，但很多人仍然對他頂禮膜拜。

So what exactly is this surprisingly powerful character trait?

trait特徵，特點，特性[C]

Jim's two most pleasing traits are generosity and energy. 吉姆最討人喜歡的特徵是豪爽和充滿活力。

一點，少許，微量[S][（+of）]

The priest preached a sermon with a trait of humor. 那位神父講道有幽默感。

"Old age starts where curiosity ends." 活到老，學到老

Never stop learning.

Curiosity could be the new fountain of youth.