Part C: Translation (2016)

Part 1: Full Text (Click to Translate)

Mental health is our birthright. (46) We dont have to learn how to be mentally healthy; it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone. Mental health cant be learned, only reawakened. It is like the immune system of the body, which under stress or through lack of nutrition or exercise can be weakened, but which never leaves us. When we dont understand the value of mental health and we dont know how to gain access to it, mental health will remain hidden from us. (47) Our mental health doesnt really 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.

Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem - confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense. 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. Its a form of innate or unlearned optimism. (48) Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are. Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful, managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier. It gives us patience for ourselves and toward others as well as patience while driving, catching a fish, working on our car, or raising a child. It allows us to see the beauty that surrounds us each moment in nature, in culture, in the flow of our daily lives.

(49) Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfectly ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions. It has been available even in the most mundane of life situations to show you right from wrong, good from bad, friend from foe. Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We think of it simply as a healthy and helpful flow of intelligent thought. (50) As you will come to see, knowing that mental health is always available and knowing to trust it allow us to slow down to the moment and live life happily.

Part 2: Sentence Translation (Click to Expand)

(46)We don't have to learn how to be mentally healthy; it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone.▶

(47)Our mental health doesn't really 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.▶

(48)Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are.▶

(49)Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfectly ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions.▶

(50)As you will come to see, knowing that mental health is always available and knowing to trust it allow us to slow down to the moment and live life happily.▶

Part 3: Syntax Analysis (难点句型剖析)

(46) 句型拆解：比较结构与定语从句
主干为 We don't have to learn...; it is built into us。分号后 in the same way that... 引导方式状语。that 引导定语从句修饰 way，从句内部是 our bodies know how to heal... or mend... 的并列结构。

(47) 句型拆解：比喻结构与被动语态
主干为 Our mental health doesn't... go anywhere; it can be... hidden... but it is... capable of being restored...。like the sun behind a cloud 是比喻结构作插入语。句末的 being restored 是动名词的被动形式。

(48) 句型拆解：并列结构与条件状语从句
主干为 Mental health allows us to view others...。宾语后接了三个并列的状语：with sympathy (if...), with kindness (if...), 和 with unconditional love (no matter who...)。这种排比结构增强了论证力度。

(49) 句型拆解：让步状语从句与宾语从句
句首 Although 引导让步状语从句。主句中 as 引导非限制性定语从句或原因状语从句，意为“正如/因为...”。that 引导宾语从句 that it has been there... 作为 see 的宾语。

(50) 句型拆解：动名词短语作主语
主干为 knowing... and knowing... allow us to slow down... and live...。两个并列的 knowing 动名词短语充当主语。knowing 后各接一个宾语从句：that mental health is always available 以及 to trust it。