Number four, you feel irrationally irritable.
第四,你会感到莫名烦躁。
In America, the answer is clear. People would do just about anything to avoid being left with their own thoughts. Past research, for instance, has found people to be (irrationally) averse to idleness and motivated by busyness.
在美国,答案是显而易见。 人们为了避免独处思考,几乎愿意做任何事情。 举个例子,过去有研究发现,人们(非理性地)厌恶懒惰,并被忙碌所驱使。
The very suddenness of her bereavement dulled, to some extent, Thomasin's feelings; yet irrationally enough, a consciousness that the husband she had lost ought to have been a better man did not lessen her mourning at all.
突然失去了丈夫,在某种程度上,使托玛茜感情麻木了;不过,相当不合情理是,她虽然意识到失去丈夫本应该是个更好些男人,这并没有减少她悲伤。
It is so much easier for us to think that we are (as they also quickly tell us) irrationally prone to anger, over-excited, 'insane' and complaining for no reason — rather than deep in a relationship with a cruel soul.
对我们来说,认为自己(正如那些操纵者会告诉我们那样)不够理性、易怒、过度兴奋、疯狂以及无缘无故抱怨,比认为自己与一个内心残酷人纠缠不清更容易。