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当你漫步乡间小道或到牧区游览时,常可发现滚动着的粪球。仔细瞧瞧,原来是蜣螂在搬运“宝贝”——充饥的粮食。蜣螂,俗称屎壳郞,多以动物粪便为食,有“自然界清道夫”的称号。它常将粪便制成球状,滚动到可靠的地方藏起来,然后再慢慢吃掉。一只蜣螂可以滚动一个比它身体大得多的粪球。处于繁殖期的雌蜣螂则会将粪球做成梨状,并在其中产卵。孵出的幼虫以现成的粪球为食,直到发育为成年蜣螂才破卵而出。

法布尔在《昆虫记》中是这样描写蜣螂的:当第一次脱皮时,这个小昆虫还未长成完全的甲虫,很少有昆虫能比这个小动物更美丽,半透明的黄色如蜜的色彩,看来真如琥珀雕成的一般。它差不多有四个星期保持这个状态,到后来,重新再脱掉一层皮。这时候它的颜色是红白色,在变成檀木的黑色之前,它是要换好几回衣服的,颜色渐黑,硬度渐强,直到披上角质的甲胄,才是完全长成的甲虫。

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Why I've taken a break from holidays

    It is now close to four years since I last took a holiday. This is because I have come to the conclusion, over the course of my adult life, that I am not very good at it. You might think this sounds like saying you're not very good at drinking tea or listening to music. What could possibly be difficult about the natural act of putting your working life on hold for a couple of weeks and going somewhere warm to do nothing?

    I was a model holidaymaker as a kid. However, the problems started during my twenties. A trip to the south of France was ended after just two days, mainly because I had an urge to check my e-mails. Similarly, my honeymoon was cut short by 48 hours—not because my wife and I weren't enjoying ourselves, but because we were missing our cats.

    So what is my problem? On the surface, I'm probably a bit of a homebody. And I just find the pressure of being on holiday too severe: it always feels like having a gun held to my head and being forced to have fun. Somehow, packing a list of possessions and meeting a scheduled flight has none of the excitement of suddenly deciding to take a day off and driving somewhere for the fun of it.

    Thankfully, I'm not alone. This summer, most of my friends have decided not to have a break. And a recent survey (调查) proved the downside of holidays, with the results showing that nearly two thirds of people found that the calming effects of a holiday wore off within 24 hours, as stress levels returned to normal. And this year The Idler magazine published its Book of Awful Holidays. Here you will find a list of the five most ecologically-damaging vacations it's possible to take, along with 50 painful holiday experiences voted for on The Idler website.

    What interests me is what the concept of a “holiday” says about our lives. For me, the point of living is to have a life you enjoy for 52 weeks a year. The more I like my life and the better I structure it, the less I want to go away. Maybe I'm an unusual person for not liking holidays, but I just feel the time when I'm not working is too valuable to waste on them.