1. "We've done years of work in showing that excess alarm or stress chemicals can literally burst heart muscle fibers.
    "我们已经做了多年研究，证明过分忧虑或紧张所产生的化学物质的确会损伤心肌纤维。

2. "What happens is that the hotter people get, physiologically, with mental stress, the more likely they are to blow apart with some heart problem."
    "此时就会发生这种情况--人们由于心理上的压力在生理上变得越发激动，他们的身体就越可能因为某种心脏病而垮下来。"

3. "If there is one word that should be substituted for stress, it's control.
    "如果有什么能取代压力，那就是控制。

4. Again, you face the terms: "Loss of self-worth and security, fear of the future, stress, depression (抑郁)."
    你又一次面对这些字眼： "失去了自尊和保障、害怕未来、精神紧张、沮丧消沉。"

5. You wonder if eating a dozen chocolate-chip (碎片) cookies, wearing a house coat until 4, combing your hair at 5, cleaning behind the stove (twice) and crying in a job-agency parking lot qualify as symptoms of stress or maybe loss of self-worth.
    你不知道这些情况是否可以归类于因紧张、或许还有失去自身价值所引起的症状：一连吃下十几块巧克力曲奇、下午4点钟还穿着居家便服、5点钟才梳头发、在炉子后面东扫西抹 (两遍），以及在职业介绍所的停车场上哭泣。

6. So says Dr. Robert S. Eliot, author of a new book titled From Stress to Strength: How to Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life. He's a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Nebraska.
    内布拉斯加大学的临床医学教授、新书《从压力到力量：怎样减轻你的负担并拯救你的生命》的作者罗伯特·S·埃利奥特博士就是这样说的。

7. Caring for AIDS patients could seriously stress economic resources even in richer countries.
    照顾艾滋病病人会给经济资源带来沉重的压力，即使在富国也是如此。

8. On the exterior, he was cool, calm and collected but on the interior, stress was killing him.
    表面上，他显得沉着、冷静和泰然自若，但他内心深处的压力使他筋疲力尽。

9. Ours has more stress in it, especially in these days of rising competition and shrinking companies.
    而我们的工作则压力更大，尤其是在当今竞争日趋激烈、公司规模日趋缩小的时代。

10. Others laughed too. Humor broke the stress of a very uncomfortable scene.
    其他的人也会跟着笑起来。幽默可以打破令人尴尬的场合中的紧张气氛。