让梦想离你更近一些：20170731 长难句

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【昨日回顾】

Our mental health doesn’t go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.

心理健康并没有真的离开；宛如云朵后面的太阳，它虽然可能暂离我们的视线，但完全能在转瞬之间重现。

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【今日长难句】

Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem—confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense.

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【结构解析】

句子主干为主系表结构，即：Mental health /is /the seed; that引导定语从句修饰the seed; confidence … and an ability to … 为self-esteem的同位语。

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【词的处理】

seed  / si:d / n. [C, U] 种子

self-esteem 自尊心

confidence / ˈkɔnfidəns; NAmE ˈkɑ:n- / n.[U] 信心

common sense 常识

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【参考译文】

Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem—confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense.

心理健康是一颗种子，它孕育我们的自尊心——即对自己的信心和相信自身常识的能力。

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【明日长难句】

It allows us to have perspective on our lives—the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out. It's a form of innate or unlearned optimism.