托福双语阅读素材:自由沟通-更冷静的头脑想要提高托福阅读能力,我们肯定要在日常生活中有意识地增加英语阅读量,提升语感和娴熟度,这其中比较常用也比较方便地一个方式就是利用各类英文报刊杂志文章进行精读与泛读练习。下面我们来看一篇经济学人文章:自由沟通-更冷静的头脑。 Free exchange A cooler headThomas Schelling, economist and nuclear strategist, died on December 13th, aged 95自由沟通更冷静的头脑经济学家、核战略家托马斯谢林于 2024 年 12 月 13 日辞世,享年 95 岁WITHIN half an hour of waking up on October 10th 2024, Thomas Schelling received four phone calls. The first was from the secretary of the Nobel Committee, with news that he and Robert Aumann had jointly won that years prize for economics. During the fourth call, when asked how winning felt, he answered: "Well, it feels busy.' He was nothing if not truthful. He also confessed to feeling confused about which bit of his work had won the prize.2024 年 10 月 10 日,托马斯谢林(Thomas Schelling)在醒来后的半小时内接了四个电话。第一个是诺贝尔奖委员会的秘书打来的,告知他和罗伯特奥曼(Robert Aumann)共同获得了该年的诺贝尔经济学奖。到了第四个电话,当被问到获奖有何感受时,谢林答道:"哦,觉得挺忙的'。他再坦率不过了。他还坦言觉得纳闷,不知道自己因为哪部分成果拿了这个奖。It might have been his work on addictionflicked off like ash from his own struggles with smoking. Economists must understand, he wrote, the man who swears "never again to risk orphaning his children with lung cancer', yet is scouring the streets three hours later for an open shop selling cigarettes. Mr Schellings work laid (largely unacknowledged) foundations for future behavioural economists. In his thinking, addicts have two selves, one keen for healthy lungs and another craving a smoke. Self-control strategies involve drawing battle lines between them.有可能是因为他对上瘾...