part 15

140 People need play as well as work, though, if your interest is deep enough, work and play can be the same thing. To some people all their best work is a sort of play. They get so much pleasure from it and are so interested in it that they work when they don't need to. They are doing what they want most to do. It was the philosopher Plato who said, "All learning is best done as play. Nothing learned under pressure takes root rightly in the mind. So let children's work be a sort of play." (Republic, 537.)

人们需要娱乐也需要工作，但是，如果你的兴趣足够深，工作和娱乐可以是一回事。 对有些人来说，他们所有最好的工作都是一种游戏。 他们从中得到如此多的乐趣，对它如此感兴趣，以至于他们在不需要的时候也工作。 他们在做他们最想做的事。 哲学家柏拉图说过：“所有的学习都是在玩耍中完成的。” 在压力下学到的东西不会在头脑中扎根。 所以让孩子们的工作成为一种游戏。” (共和国,537)。

141 People need work and play for the body and for the mind. They need music... and dancing.… …rest and change. (See EP 1, p. 266.) They need books and talk with others: with old friends as well as with new people. They need new knowledge to keep their old knowledge clear and living. A friend is someone you know and love and with whom you have much in common. People you know only a little are not your friends in this sense, though they may become your friends if you get to know them better.

人的身体和心灵都需要工作和娱乐。 他们需要音乐……和跳舞。... ...休息和改变。 （见第1页，第266页。）他们需要读书，需要和别人交谈：和老朋友，也和新朋友。 他们需要新知识来保持旧知识的清晰和鲜活。 朋友是你认识、爱的人，和你有很多共同点。 从这个意义上说，你了解很少的人不是你的朋友，尽管如果你更了解他们，他们可能会成为你的朋友。

142 People need to see beautiful things and to have beautiful things about them. Drawing goes back very far into our past. The drawings of animals copied on this page may have been made as early as 25,000 B.C.

人们需要看到美丽的事物，并拥有美丽的事物。 绘画可以追溯到很久以前。 这一页上的动物图画可能早在公元前25000年就画好了

143 Drawing can help to make ideas easier—the pictures drawn in this book, for example. But the greatest drawing and painting and sculpture can make our highest powers come into play. The drawings below are of two pieces of sculpture, one from India and the other from Africa.

绘画有助于使想法更容易产生——例如，这本书中所画的图画。 但是最伟大的绘画和雕塑可以使我们最高的力量发挥作用。 下面的图画是两件雕塑，一件来自印度，另一件来自非洲。

144 We need to hear beautiful things. Music may go back still farther in time than the other arts, but unhappily we have no records of music before the discovery of writing. As with language the writing of music may have started with pictures. Today not only do we have ways of writing down music, but we can make copies of the sound of music as it is played.

我们需要聆听美好的事物。 音乐可以追溯到比其他艺术更久远的年代，但不幸的是，在文字被发现之前，我们没有音乐的记录。 和语言一样，音乐的创作可能是从图画开始的。 今天，我们不仅有办法把音乐写下来，而且我们可以在演奏时复制音乐的声音。

145 We need to make beautiful things. Today the great cities of the world have public art galleries and museums where anyone may see the paintings and drawings and sculpture of artists through the centuries.

我们需要创造美丽的东西。 今天，世界上的大城市都有公共艺术画廊和博物馆，在那里任何人都可以看到几个世纪以来艺术家的油画、素描和雕塑。