Stress is your body’s response to demands that areplaced on it. It’s the “wear and tear” experience as you continually makeadjustments to changes in your life. Demands may be external, say bills,friends, work, relationships, or they may be in your mind, for example, how youfeel about yourself. So stress is commonly considered to be a bad thing. Is itreally the case? Not really. In fact, I should say, everyone needs a certainamount of stress in order to live well. Stress is what gets you out of bed inthe morning, giving you extra zest and vitality to do all sorts of things:presentation, sport, work. But too much stress may cause problems.

壓力是對你所施加的需求的身體反應。這是隨著你不斷調整你生活中的改變的“磨損”經驗。需求肯能是來源于外界，如法案，朋友，工作，關系；也可能是存在于你腦海中，比如你的自我感覺。所以，壓力是普遍被認為是一件壞事。事情真的是這樣嗎？不是的。事實上，我們應該說，為了生活得更好，每個人都需要一定的壓力。壓力每天早上把你從床上拉出來，給你額外的熱情和活力去做各種各樣的事情，如演示，運動，工作等等。但是壓力過大可能會引起問題。

As a negative factor, stress can destroy work and homerelationships. Too much stress may cause distraction, anger, anxiety or fear.To modern people, it is important to note that too much stress may result in arange of health problems, including headaches, upset stomach, high bloodpressure, even strokes and heart disease. Stress becomes a problem or“distress” when you have either too little or too much of it. Many womencomplain about having too much stress in their lives. This over-stress needs tobe reduced to a more manageable level. The over-stress that people experiencemay be acute such as the loss of a job, divorce, a death or chronic such asbeing unemployed for a long time, being in a bad relationship, or long-termillness. In either case, too much stress at either an acute or chronic levelcan exhaust your body and ultimately lead to health problems. Therefore, peopleshould learn to adjust lives and mood, so that have less stress and live ahealthy and happy life.

作為一個消極的因素，壓力可以摧毀工作和家庭關系。壓力過大會導致分心，憤怒，焦慮和恐懼。對現代人來說，主要的是要注意壓力過大會導致一系列的健康問題，這些問題包括頭痛，胃部不適，高血壓甚至中風和心臟病。當你擁有過多或者過少的時候，壓力就會變成一種問題或者“苦惱”。很多婦女抱怨她們的生活中有太多壓力。這種過應力應該減少到一個更易于管理的水平。人們所經歷的這種過應力可能是急性的，如失業，離婚，死亡；也可能是慢性的，如長時間失業，處于糟糕的人際關系中，或者是長期患病。在這兩種情況下，不管是急性或慢性的壓力過大都可能耗盡你的體力，最終導致健康問題。因此，人們應該學會調節生活和心情，這樣就可以減少壓力，過上健康幸福的生活。