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1、感觉身体被掏空这并非本时代独有 “I’msotired.” Wehearthiscomplaintallthetime.Thesedays,itseemseveryoneisexhausted.Everyoneisattheendoftheirrope1).Everyoneneedssometimeoff. Indeed,53percentofAmericanworkersreportfeelingburntout.It’seasytoblamethisonmodernworkculture.Meanwhile,we’resp
2、endingmoreandmoretimeinfrontofourcomputerscreens,toourowndetriment2):Recentresearchsaysemailscauseemotionalexhaustion.A2014studyfoundthatusingasmartphonebeforebedmadeworkersmoretiredandlessproductivethenextday. Exhaustioncanfeelliketheby-productofanewandmodernera,wher
3、eworkhasslithered3)pastthefourwallsoftheofficeorthethreewallsofthecubicleintothehome;whereemailsinvitethemselvesonourbeachvacations;wherethemediaconsistentlyremindsusofclimatechange,terrorism,andthechaoticpoliticalscene. Surely,itwasn’talwaysthisway?Therewasatimewhent
4、hesunandtheseasonsdictatedworkschedulesandinsteadofclockinginonSundaypeopleobserved4)theSabbath5),andeverythingwas11justso...simple. Right? Actually,asmuchaswe’dliketothinkthatourfeelingsofexhaustionareuniquetotoday,itturnsoutourancestorsweren’tmorerelaxedorlessworno
5、ut.“Atanypointinhistory,peoplehaveexperiencedexhaustionandtheorizeditinmanydifferentways,”saysAnnaKatharinaSchaffner,amedicalresearcherattheUniversityofKentandtheauthorofthenewbook,Exhaustion:AHistory,whichchroniclesthetrajectory6)ofexhaustiondiscourse.“Foreachera,exha
6、ustionwasthishybrid7)creature,whichwasnotonlyunderstoodthroughbiologicalandphysicalcontexts,butattimes,alsowrappedupinthesocialandpoliticalclimatesaswell.” Whatcouldbecomfortingtothefried,21st-centuryworkeristhatregardlessoftheepoch,regardlessofwhetherhumanswereliving
7、inagrariansocietiesorwerebystanderstoaworldthatwasmodernizingatanunprecedentedvelocity,peopleweretired.Reallytired.Buthowtheysoughttoexplaintheirwearinesschangedovertime. Thefirsttheoriesofexhaustionmaydatebacktothe2thcenturywhenGreekphysicianGalen8)toutedtheimportanc
8、eofbalancebetweenthefourbodily“humors9)”:blood,yellowbile10),black11bile,andphlegm11).Whenanexcessofblackbile―thehumo
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