特别广播英语第 154 课：Leisure and Leadership 休闲与引导-3

Basically, such attitudes amount to a recognition that leisure is an important area of life and a belief that leisure can and should be put to good use. 基本上这种态度就等于承认休闲是生活的重要部分，相信休闲能够并且应该得到充分利用。

Professional workers in recreation services, too, will find that to impart positive leisure attitudes to the general public is essential for motivating them to use their leisure in creative and satisfying ways. 休闲服务的职业工作者也会发现赋予公众对休闲的下面态度对于促使他们以创造性的、令人满意的方式休闲很重要。

Hence, it can be argued that the people with whom we come into contact in these various contexts are all likely to have exerted some influence in shaping our attitudes, interests and even skills relevant to how we handle leisure. Influence of this kind is a form of leadership. 因而，可以认为我们在各种环境中与之打交道的人往往对我们形成与休闲有关的态度、举甚至技巧都产生了影响。这种影响是一种引导。

Parents, teachers in schools, work associates and communicators in or using the mass media are all capable of arousing our potential interests. 父母、老师、工作同伴和大众媒体的传播者都能激发我们潜在的兴趣。

For example, the degree to which and the ways in which a school encourages participation in games, sports and cultural pursuits are likely to contribute to the shaping of leisure attitudes on the part of the students. 例如，学校对于做游戏、参加体育活动和文化追求的鼓励的程度和方式很可能对学生休闲态度的形成产生影响。

Schools usually set as their educational objective the attainment of a balanced development of the person. 学校常常把人的平衡发展作为它们的教育目标。

The more seriously this is sought, the more likely positive attitudes towards leisure as well as academic word will be encouraged. 越是认真地追求这一目标，这越可能鼓励正面的休闲态度，就像鼓励学业一样。