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The Road to Happiness通往幸福的道路
By Bertrand Russell
If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.
The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his children's noise unendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen--a different diet, or more exercise, or what not.
Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
只要你观察一下周围那些你可称之为幸福的男男女女,就会看出他们都有某些共同之处。在这些共同之处中有一点是最重要的:那就是活动本身,它在大多数情况下本身就很有趣,而且可逐渐的使你的愿望得以实现。生性喜爱孩子的妇女,能够从抚养子女中得到这种满足。艺术家、作家和科学家如果对自己的工作感到满意,也能以同样的方式得到快乐。不过,还有很多是较低层次的快乐。许多在城里工作的人到了周末自愿地在自家的庭院里做无偿的劳动,春天来时,他们就可尽情享受自己创造的美景带来的快乐。
在我看来,整个关于快乐的话题一向都被太严肃的对待过了。过去一直有这样的看法:如果没有一种生活的理论或者宗教信仰,人是不可能幸福的。也许那些由于理论不好才导致不快乐的人需要一种较好的理论帮助他们重新快活起来,就像你生过病需要吃补药一样。但是,正常情况下,一个人不吃补药也应当是健康的;没有理论也应当是幸福的。真正有关系的是一些简单的事情。如果一个男人喜爱他的妻子儿女,事业有成,而且无论白天黑夜,春去秋来,总是感到高兴,那么不管他的理论如何,都会是快乐的。反之,如果他讨厌自己的妻子,受不了孩子们的吵闹,而且害怕上班;如果他白天盼望夜晚,而到了晚上又巴望着天明,那么,他所需要的就不是一种新的理论,而是一种新的生活——改变饮食习惯,多锻炼身体等等。
人是动物,他的幸福更多的时候取决于其生理状况而非思想状况。这是一个很庸俗的结论,然而我无法使自己怀疑它。我确信,不幸福的商人与其找到新的理论来使自己幸福,还不如每天步行六英里更见效。
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摘录:经济学家们一直试图衡量人们生活的幸福感。从1972年开始,不丹放弃国内生产总值的测算,取而代之的是“国民幸福指数”。这一数值根据人们对政府以及经济发展的满意度、与环境的关系、以及国民归属感。
icrophone to their mouth and asked a simple question: “Are you happy?”
The question has caught many interviewees off guard. Even Mo Yan, who recently won a Nobel Prize, responded by saying: “I don’t know”.
近日,中央电视台记者将镜头和麦克风对准了路上的行人,采访的问题很简单:“你幸福吗?”
这个问题令许多被访者措手不及。甚至就连刚刚获得诺贝尔奖的莫言也回应说:“我不知道。”
While the question has become a buzz phrase and the Internet plays host to heated discussions, we ask: What exactly is happiness? And how do you measure it?
这一问题已经成为热门语句并引发网络热议。我们不禁要问:“到底什么是幸福?你又怎样衡量幸福呢?”
In the 1776 US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson set in writing the people’s unalienable right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Last year, 235 years on, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao told the nation: “Everything we do is aimed at letting people live more happily.” At last year’s National People’s Congress, officials agreed that increasing happiness would be a top target for the 12th five-year plan.
在1776年美国发布的《独立宣言》中,托马斯•杰弗逊写下,人们拥有不可剥夺的“生存权、自由权以及追求幸福的权利”。235年过去了,去年,国家温家宝在发表全国讲话时称:“我们做的每件事都是为了让人民过得更幸福。”在去年举行的全国人民代表大会上,各级官员一致同意将增加国民幸福感定为我国“十二五”规划的首要目标。
US psychologist Ed Diener, author of Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, describes happiness as “a combination of life satisfaction and having more positive than negative emotions”, according to US broadcasting network PBS. This may sound straightforward enough, but it still doesn’t explain what determines people’s happiness.
据美国PBS电视台报道,《快乐-解锁心灵财富的秘密》一书的作者、美国心理学家埃德•迪纳将幸福描述为“对生活满足且正面情绪占上风”。尽管这听上去足够直白,但还是没有解释出是什么来决定人们的幸福感。
Many argue that happiness is elusive and that there is no single source. It also means different things to different people. For some, happiness can be as simple as having enough cash to buy a new bicycle; for others, it’s about socializing or finding the perfect spouse.
很多人认为,幸福难以捉摸,幸福源自许多方面。对于不同的人来说,幸福的意义也不同。对一些人而言,幸福很简单,有足够的钱来买辆新自行车就很幸福;对其他人而言,幸福则关乎于社交活动或是找寻最佳配偶。
Researchers believe happiness can be separated into two types: daily experiences of hedonic well-being; and evaluative well-being, the way people think about their lives as a whole. The former refers to the quality of living, whereas the latter is about overall happiness, including life goals and achievements. Happiness can cross both dimensions.
研究人员认为,幸福可以分成两类:一是日常的享乐主义幸福,二是可评估的幸福,即人们整体思考生活的方式。前者强调生活质量,而后者则注重整体幸福感,包括人生目标和成就。幸福则可以令二者产生交叉。
Li Jun, a psychologist and mental therapy practitioner at a Beijing clinic, says: “Happiness can mean both the most basic human satisfaction or the highest level of spiritual pursuit. It’s a simple yet profound topic.”
来自北京一家诊所的心理精神理疗师李俊(音译)表示:“幸福的定义既可以是人类最基本的需求得到满足,也可以是精神追求的最高境界。这是一个虽简单,却意义深远的话题。”
Chen Shangyuan, 21, a junior English major at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, said his idea of happiness always evolves. “At present it relates to how productive I am in a day,” he said. “It might be linked to job security or leisure time after I graduate.”
21岁的陈尚远(音译)现就读于南京航空航天大学,他表示自己对于幸福的理解总是不断进化。他说:“眼下幸福与与我每日的学习效率有关。毕业后,也许会同职业安全感以及休闲时间有关。”
Then there is the question of measuring happiness. Does it depend on how many friends we have, or whether we own the latest smartphone? Is it even quantifiable?
接下来的问题是:如何衡量幸福?取决于我们身边朋友的多少?是否拥有最新款的智能手机?而幸福真的可以量化吗?
Economists are trying to measure happiness in people’s lives. Since 1972, Bhutan’s GDP measurement has been replaced by a Gross National Happiness index. It is calculated according to the peoples’ sense of being well-governed, their relationship with the environment, their satisfaction with economic development, and their sense of national belonging.
经济学家们一直试图衡量人们生活的幸福感。从1972年开始,不丹放弃国内生产总值的测算,取而代之的是“国民幸福指数”。这一数值根据人们对政府以及经济发展的满意度、与环境的关系、以及国民归属感。
In 2009, US economist Joseph Stiglitz proposed “to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people’s well-being”. But is well-being more easily measured?
2009年,美国经济学家约瑟夫·斯蒂格里兹提议“将测量的重点从经济生产转移到人均幸福感上来。”但是,幸福真会变得更易于测量吗?
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名词解释:美国著名心理学家赛利格曼提出了一个幸福的公式:总幸福指数=先天的遗传素质+后天的环境+你能主动控制的心理力量 (H=S+C+V)。总幸福指数是指你的较为稳定的幸福感,而不是暂时的快乐和幸福。看了一个喜剧电影,或者吃了一顿美食,这是暂时的快感;而幸福感是令你感到持续幸福的、稳定的幸福感觉,包括对现实生活的总体满意度和对自己的生命的质量的评价,是对自己生存状态的全面肯定。这个总体幸福取决于三个因素:一是一个人先天的遗传素质,二是环境事件,三是你能控制的心理力量。你知道怎么用英语表达吗?
Happiness has traditionally been considered an elusive and evanescent thing. To some, even trying to achieve it is an exercise in futility. It has been said that "happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Social scientists have caught the butterfly. After 40 years of research, they attribute happiness to three major sources: genes, events and values.
Armed with this formula for happiness and a few simple rules, we can improve our lives and the lives of those around us.
人们习惯认为幸福难以捉摸、稍纵即逝。对于一些人来说,试图获得幸福甚至是徒劳无功的。有人说“幸福就像一只蝴蝶,你追逐它,往往抓不住,但如果你静静坐下,它可能飞落在你身上。”
社会科学家已经捉到了这只蝴蝶。经过40年的研究,他们把幸福归因于三种主要来源:基因、事件和价值。
知道这则幸福公式,再加上几条简单规则,我们就可以改善自己和身边人的生活。
文中的formula for happiness就是“幸福公式”的意思,其中formula作名词,意为“公式;配方”,如:What is the formula for water?(水的分子式是什么?),formula for the drink(饮料的配方)。
第一句中的elusive是形容词,意为“难懂的;难捉摸的”,如:Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.(失败是无可避免的,成功则是稍纵即逝的。)
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以下是读文网小编整理的情感类英语美文欣赏: 希望对你有所感触。
How happy is the little stone
幸福的小石头
How happy is the little stone.
多幸福的小石头啊,
That rambles in the road alone,
独自在路上漫步,
And doesn't care about careers,
不汲汲于功名,
And exigencies never fears——
也从不为变故担心;
Whose coat of elemental brown,
匆匆而过的宇宙,
A passing universe put on;
也得披上它自然褐色的外衣。
And independent as the sun,
它独立不羁如太阳,
Associates or glows alone,
与从同辉,或独自闪光,
Fulfilling absolute decree,
它决然顺应天意。
in casual simplicity.
单纯,一味自然
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以下是小编整理的情感类英语美文欣赏:幸福是个过程, 希望使你的心灵有所触动。
在这样一个初春的早晨,淅沥淅沥的下着小雨。应该是静静的思念一个人。可是整个歌曲里是悲伤,只因为分手。
小雨惊醒了一直的美梦。小草因为雨水的滋润长出来了。太阳不忍看哭泣躲进了云里。我和你的爱,结束了。
美妙的画面,多了一丝的悲伤。点点滴滴的记忆犹如雨点一滴一滴滴进我的心里。我一直在问为什么天要下雨,为什么我要哭泣?
那是因为天空中的雨滴是我的眼泪。因为分手在春季。
春季,是个多雨的季节。春季,却又是一个充满希望的季节。
所以享受这春雨,忘记过去等待新的开始。
你自己就是小草。会慢慢长大。
Spring Rain
By Coco
Tears from the sky,
Softly falling.
In the morning,
It breaks my dreams.
Wake the grass up,
Let the sun hide.
Thou are singing
Or thou are weeping?
Xi-li... xi-li...
Raining to my heart.
One drop after another.
Again and again restart.
We have been apart,
Love has disappeared from heart.
We love at first sight.
But why we break up?
Xi-li ... xi-li...
Have you heard of it?
Have you touched of it?
I am always asking.
Why raining?
Why tears falling?
For raining is my crying.
And I know it is spring!
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摘要:当人们去远方度假时,往往会发现时间过得与平时很不一样。热带地区悠闲的节奏让我们习惯于“岛上的时间”,过得更加放松。去大城市令人兴奋,却也被充满活力的快节奏生活弄得筋疲力尽。
While on vacation in distant locales, people often find that time moves quite differently than inthe places they’re used to. In the tropics, we settle into the grooves of “island time” and relaxthanks to a more leisurely rhythm. A trip to a big city can leave us exhilarated but alsodrained by the energetic whir of life there.
The different paces of different communities also seem to be connected to other culturalcharacteristics. Robert Levine and his colleagues have studied the speed of life in cities aroundthe world and across the U.S. In a series of experiments they measured how fast solitarypedestrians in a downtown core covered a distance of 60 feet (being careful to exclude thosewho are obviously window shopping), timed how long it took to complete a simple commercialtransaction, and recorded the accuracy of randomly selected clocks in the downtownbusiness area. They found that places with a faster pace of life also had more robust economies(as measured by GDP per capita, average purchasing power, and average caloric intake), andthat people in larger cities tended to move faster than those in less populated areas. They alsofound truth to the stereotype that people move slower in hotter places.
金钱买不到幸福 或许时间可以
据科技杂志Nautilus报道,当人们去远方度假时,往往会发现时间过得与平时很不一样。热带地区悠闲的节奏让我们习惯于“岛上的时间”,过得更加放松。去大城市令人兴奋,却也被充满活力的快节奏生活弄得筋疲力尽。
群体间不同的生活节奏是与他们的文化有关的。罗伯特?莱文和他的同事们对全球各个城市和美国各地的生活节奏做了一个调查。通过一系列的实验,他们计算出了每个城市里的人走过60英尺需要的时间(他们仔细地将其中明显是在逛街的人排除在外),计算了一桩买卖成交需要的时间,并且记录了在中心商业区随机挑选的时钟的准确性。他们发现节奏快的地方往往是那些经济更加发达的地方(通过对比人均GDP、平均购买力还有平均热量摄入),并且人们在大城市里比在人口少的地方走得更快。他们也发现了人们在热的地方走得更慢这一惯例。
So as you might expect, fast-moving people are associated with fast-moving economies. Butdoes that faster life translate into greater happiness? In faster places (specifically, economicallydeveloped areas of North America, Western Europe, and Asia), people were more likely tosmoke, less likely to take the time to help strangers in need, and more likely to die fromcoronary heart disease. Yet Levine and his colleagues found that residents in faster placestended to report feeling somewhat happier with their lives than those who lived in slower places.A city’s pace of life was indeed “significantly related” to the physical, social, and psychologicalwell-being of its inhabitants.
正如你所想象的那样,快节奏的人们和高速增长的经济相关。但是快节奏的生活就意味着幸福么?在快节奏的地方(尤其是经济发达地区,如北美、西欧和亚洲),更多的人抽烟,更少的人会去帮助那些需要帮助的人,并且更容易死于冠心病。但是莱文和他的同事们发现,在快节奏城市生活的人觉得自己比那些生活在慢节奏城市的人更加幸福。一个城市的生活节奏明显与居民的身体健康、社会意识和心理状态息息相关。
Perhaps the higher reported rates of happiness simply reflect the fact that faster places havemore robust economies. But the relationship between income and reported happiness is farfrom obvious. According to the “Easterlin paradox” (named after economist Richard Easterlin),once people have enough money to meet their basic needs, having more money is notnecessarily correlated with higher self-reported happiness. Easterlin’s claims are controversialand not universally accepted; even if his theory is correct, wealthier nations might be happieroverall if they address the basic needs to more of their people. In any case, the ongoingdebate indicates that we need to tread carefully when making connections between happinessand overall economic factors.
也许更高的幸福指数反应出了这样一个事实:快节奏的城市拥有更好的经济发展。但是收入与幸福指数间的关系并不明显。根据伊斯特林悖论(以经济学家理查德?伊斯特林的名字命名),一旦人们拥有足够的钱满足基本的生活需求,收入与幸福指数关联得并不紧密。伊斯特林悖论存在着争议也没有被普遍接受,尽管他的理论是对的,在满足了更多人们的基本生活需求时,总的来说更富有的国家幸福指数会高些。无论如何,依旧持续着的争议告诉我们将幸福指数和整体经济因素进行关联时需要多加小心。
Among individuals in a society, busyness—or the feeling of busyness—seems to be animportant factor in well-being. That feeling of busyness—of having a lot to do and too littletime in which to do itis often associated with stress and anxiety. However in many contextsbeing “busy” is badge of honor: Busy parents are seen as devoted to their children’s well-being, the busy real estate agent must be closing lots of sales, and the busy lawyer can chargea premium hourly rate. In US studies, the happiest people reported that they were busy, in thesense that they had little excess time, yet did not feel rushed. Like big-city dwellers, theyseemed to thrive at a faster pace.
对社会中的个体来说,忙碌——或者感觉忙碌——似乎是影响状态的重要因素。忙碌的感觉——有很多的事情要做,却没有多少时间的感觉经常带来压力与焦虑。但在很多的情况下,忙碌是一个光荣的标志:忙碌的父母被认为是为了让孩子过得好;忙碌的房地产经纪人则与客户更加亲密;忙碌的律师的时薪也更高。在美国的调查发现,幸福指数最高的人都很忙,也就意味着他们没有多余的时间,也不觉得匆忙。就好像大城市的居民们,他们似乎喜欢更快的生活节奏。
Levine’s work raises the intriguing possibility that an individual’s feelings about their use oftime contribute as much or more to their happiness as does economics. Now the bigchallenge is to find out which way the causal chain works: Does the feeling of being active, yetnot rushed, contribute to happiness? Or does happiness allow people to perceive their use oftime in positive ways?
莱文的研究显示了对时间利用的个人感觉可能比经济更加影响幸福指数。现在的问题时需要找出这样的影响是怎样发生的:是因为充实并不匆忙的感觉令人幸福?还是幸福让人们更加积极地利用他们的时间?
She was dancing. My crippled grandmother wasdancing. I stood in the living room doorwayabsolutely stunned. I glanced at the kitchen tableand sure enough-right under a small, framed drawingon the wall-was a freshly baked peach pie.
她在跳舞。我那身有残疾的祖母居然在跳舞。我站在客厅的门口,被彻底惊呆了。我扫了一眼厨房的餐桌,果不其然,在餐桌上——墙上那幅小小的镶框画像的正下方——有一块新鲜出炉的烤蜜桃派。
I heard her sing when I opened the door but did notwant to interrupt the beautiful song by yelling I hadarrived, so I just tiptoed to the living room. I looked at how her still-lean body bent beautifully,her arms greeting the sunlight that was pouring through the window. And her legs… Those legsthat had stiffly walked, aided with a cane, insensible shoes as long as I could remember. Nowshe was wearing beautiful dancing shoes and her legs obeyed her perfectly. No limping. Nostiffness. Just beautiful, fluid motion. She was the pet of the dancing world. And then she’d hadher accident and it was all over. I had read that in an old newspaper clipping.
当我推门进屋的时候,我听到了她在唱歌,但我不想大喊自己回来了,不想打断那美妙的歌声,于是我踮着脚尖走到客厅。我看着她那依然消瘦的身体优雅地弯下,她的手臂迎向从窗口倾泻而入的阳光。而她的腿……自我能记事以来,她总是拄着拐杖,穿着便鞋,走起路来腿脚僵硬。可现在,她正穿着美丽的舞鞋,而她的双腿完全听从着她的支配。不再蹒跚,不再僵硬。只有优美、流畅的动作。她曾是舞蹈界的宠儿。可是后来她遭遇了一场意外,舞蹈生涯因此而结束。我是从一张老旧的剪报中读到这个的。
She turned around in a slow pirouette and saw me standing in the doorway. Her song ended,and her beautiful movements with it, so abruptly that it felt like being shaken awake from abeautiful dream. The sudden silence rang in my ears. Grandma looked so much like a kidcaught with her hand in a cookie jar that I couldn’t help myself, and a slightly nervous laughterescaped. Grandma sighed and turned towards the kitchen. I followed her, not believing myeyes. She was walking with no difficulties in her beautiful shoes. We sat down by the table andcut ourselves big pieces of her delicious peach pie.
她缓缓地转身做了一个足尖旋转,见到我站在门口。她的歌声嘎然而止,还有她那优美的动作,一切停止得如此突然,感觉像是从一场美梦中被人摇醒了。突如其来的寂静冲击着我的耳朵。祖母看起来很像是一个伸手从饼干罐里偷吃却被抓了个正着的小孩,我不禁发出了一阵略带一丝紧张的大笑。祖母叹了口气,转身走向厨房。我跟在她身后,还是不敢相信自己的眼睛。她穿着那双美丽的舞鞋,行走自如。我们坐在了桌边,从她那美味的蜜桃派中切出了大大的几块,俩人一起吃。
“So…” I blurted, “How did your leg heal?”
“那么……”我脱口而出道,“你的腿是怎么好了的?”
“To tell you the truth—my legs have been well all my life,” she said.
“跟你说实话吧——我的腿一直都挺好的,”她说。
“But I don’t understand!” I said, “Your dancing career… I mean… You pretended all theseyears?
“可是我不明白!”我说,“你的舞蹈事业……我是说……难道这些年来你一直在假装?”
“Very much so,” Grandmother closed her eyes and savored the peach pie, “And for a very goodreason.”
“的确如此,”祖母闭上眼睛,品尝着蜜桃派,“而且是因为一个非常好的理由。”
“What reason?”
“什么理由?”
“Your grandfather.”
“你的祖父。”
“You mean he told you not to dance?”
“你是说,他让你不要再跳舞了?”
“No, this was my choice. I am sure I would have lost him if I had continued dancing. I weighedfame and love against each other and love won.”
“不,这是我自己的选择。我确信如果我再继续跳舞的话,我就会失去他了。我权衡名利和爱情孰轻孰重之后,选择了爱情。”
She thought for a while and then continued. “We were talking about engagement when yourgrandfather had to go to war. It was the most horrible day of my life when he left. I was soafraid of losing him, the only way I could stay sane was to dance. I put all my energy and timeinto practicing—and I became very good. Critics praised me, the public loved me, but all I couldfeel was the ache in my heart, not knowing whether the love of my life would ever return. Then Iwent home and read and re-read his letters until I fell asleep. He always ended his letters with‘You are my Joy. I love you with my life’ and after that he wrote his name. And then one day aletter came. There were only three sentences: ‘I have lost my leg. I am no longer a whole manand now give you back your freedom. It is best you forget about me.’”
她想了一下,然后接着说道:“当你祖父不得不去从军参战的时候,我们已经到了谈婚论嫁的阶段了。他离开的那段日子是我一生中度过的最可怕的时期。我很害怕会失去他,能让我不至于疯掉的唯一方法就是跳舞。我把我所有的精力和时间都投入到了练习之中,于是我成为了很棒的舞者。评论家对我好评连连,公众对我钟情有嘉,可我唯一能感觉到的却是我心中的痛,因为不知道我一生的挚爱是否能平安归来。然后我回到家里,一遍又一遍地读着他的来信,直到睡去。他总是在信的结尾写着:‘你是我的幸福。爱你一生。’然后才是他的签名。但有一天我又收到了他的来信。信中只有三句话:‘我失去了一条腿。我不再是一个完整的人了,所以现在我将自由归还给你。你最好还是把我忘掉吧。’”
“I made my decision there and then. I took my leave, and traveled away from the city. When Ireturned I had bought myself a cane and wrapped my leg tightly with bandages. I told everyoneI had been in a car crash and that my leg would never completely heal again. My dancing dayswere over. No one suspected the story—I had learned to limp convincingly before I returnedhome. And I made sure the first person to hear of my accident was a reporter I knew well. ThenI traveled to the hospital. They had pushed your grandfather outside in his wheelchair. Therewas a cane on the ground by his wheelchair. I took a deep breath, leaned on my cane andlimped to him. ”
“于是我立刻做出了决定。我向众人告别,离开了这个城市。当我再度归来的时候,我为自己买了一副拐杖,并用绷带把我的腿包得紧紧的。我告诉每一个人,说我遭遇了一场车祸,我的腿再也不可能完全复原了。我的舞蹈生涯就此结束了。没有人怀疑这个故事——我在回家之前已经学会如何惟妙惟肖地跛行。我确保第一个听说我出车祸的是一位我熟知的记者。接着我来到了你祖父所在的医院。他们用轮椅把他推了出来。在他轮椅旁边的地上有一副拐杖。我深深吸了一口气,靠在我的拐杖上,一瘸一拐地向他走去。”
By now I had forgotten about the pie and listened to grandma, mesmerized. “What happenedthen?” I hurried her when she took her time eating some pie.
此刻,我已经忘记了那块蜜桃派,入迷地听着祖母说话。“然后发生了什么事情呢?”当她停下来吃了几口派时,我追问道。
“I told him he was not the only one who had lost a leg, even if mine was still attached to me. Ishowed him newspaper clippings of my accident. ‘So if you think I’m going to let you feel sorryfor yourself for the rest of your life, think again. There is a whole life waiting for us out there! Idon’t intend to be sorry for myself. But I have enough on my plate as it is, so you’d bettersnap out of it too. And I am not going to carry you-you are going to walk yourself.’” Grandmagiggled, a surprisingly girlish sound coming from an old lady with white hair.
“我告诉他,他并不是唯一失去了一条腿的人,尽管我的腿没给截掉。我给他看了关于我发生车祸的剪报。‘所以,如果你觉得我会让你在余生自怨自艾,想都别想。在外面还有全新的生活在等待着我们!我不打算为此而顾影自怜。而眼下我要做的事情已经够多的了,所以你最好也赶紧给我振作起来。而且你可别想我会背你——你要自己向前走。’”祖母咯咯地笑着,这位满头银发的老妇人令人吃惊地发出了少女般的笑声。
“I limped a few steps toward him and showed him what I’d taken out of my pocket. ‘Now showme you are still a man,’ I said, ‘I won’t ask again.’ He bent to take his cane from the groundand struggled out of that wheelchair. I could see he had not done it before, because he almostfell on his face, having only one leg. But I was not going to help. And so he managed it on hisown and walked to me and never sat in a wheelchair again in his life.”
“我一瘸一拐地走开了几步,然后让他看我从口袋里掏出的一样东西。‘现在让我看看,你还是个男子汉。我可不会说第二次。’他弯下腰从地上拿起他的拐杖,挣扎着从那副轮椅中站出来。可以看得出他之前从未这样做过,现在只有一条腿的他差点扑倒在地。但我没打算帮他。接着他设法自己站稳了,向我走来,而且在他的后半生里再也没有坐回到轮椅上。”
“What did you show him?” I had to know. Grandma looked at me and grinned. “Twoengagement rings, of course. I had bought them the day after he left for the war and I wasnot going to waste them on any other man.”
“你给他看了什么东西呢?”我一定要知道。祖母看着我咧嘴而笑,说道:“当然是一对订婚戒指了。在他从军参战的第二天我就买了这对戒指,我可不想把戒指浪费在任
何其他男人身上。”
I looked at the drawing on the kitchen wall, sketched by my grandfather’s hand so many yearsbefore. The picture became distorted as tears filled my eyes. “You are my Joy. I love you withmy life.” I murmured quietly. The young woman in the drawing sat on her park bench and withtwinkling eyes smiled broadly at me, an engagement ring carefully drawn on her finger.
我看着厨房墙壁上的那幅画像,那是多年前我祖父亲手绘就的。我眼中满含泪水,眼前的画像变得模糊起来。“你是我的幸福。爱你一生。”我轻声低语道。画像中的年轻女人坐在公园长椅上,眼神清亮,笑容可掬地看着我,她的手指上被精心地画有一枚订婚戒指。
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摘要:如果永劫回归是最沉重的负担,那么我们的生活就能以其全部辉煌的轻松,来与之抗衡:可是,沉重便真的悲惨,而轻松便真的辉煌吗?最沉重的负担压得我们崩塌了,沉没了,将我们钉在地上、由此,最沉重的负担同时也是一种生活最为充实的象征j负担越沉,我们的生活也就贴近大地,越趋近真切和实在。
If eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness. But, is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid? The heaviest of burdens crushes us. We sink beneath it. It pins us to the ground. The heaviest of burdens is, therefore, simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth; the more real and truthful they become.
生命中不能承受之轻
Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights. Take leave of the earth and his earthly being and become only half real. His movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose; weight or lightness?
如果永劫回归是最沉重的负担,那么我们的生活就能以其全部辉煌的轻松,来与之抗衡:可是,沉重便真的悲惨,而轻松便真的辉煌吗?最沉重的负担压得我们崩塌了,沉没了,将我们钉在地上、由此,最沉重的负担同时也是一种生活最为充实的象征j负担越沉,我们的生活也就贴近大地,越趋近真切和实在。
相反,完全没有负担,人变得比大气还轻,会高高地飞起,离别大地亦即离别真实的生活。他将变得似真非真,运动自由而毫无意义,那么我们将选择什么呢?沉重还是轻松?
I have been thinking about Tomas for many years. But only in the light of these reflections did I see him clearly. I saw him standing at the window of his flat and looking across the courtyard at the opposite walls not knowing what to do.
多少年来,我一直想着托马斯,似乎只有凭借回想的折光,我才能看清他这个人j我看见他站在公寓的窗台前不知所措,越过庭院的目光,落在对面的墙上。
He had first met Tereza about three weeks earlier in a small Czech town. They had spent scarcely an hour together. She had accompanied him to the station and waited with him until he boarded the train. Ten days later she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived. That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu. He had come to feel an in-explicable love for this all but complete stranger. She seemed a child to him, a child someone had put in a bulrush basket docked with pitch and sent downstream for Tomas to fetch under the riverbank of his bed.
他与特丽莎初识于三个星期前捷克的一个小镇上,两人呆在一起还不到一个钟头,她就陪他去了车站,一直等到他上火车。十天后她去看他,而且两人当天便做爱j不料夜里她发起烧来,是流感,她在他的公寓里呆了一个星期。对于这个几乎是完全陌生的人,他慢慢地感到了一种莫名其妙的爱j对他来说,她像个孩子,被人放在树脂涂覆的草筐里顺水漂来,而他在床榻之岸顺手捞起了她。
He knelt down next to her. Her feverous breath quickened and she gave out a weak moan. He pressed his face to hers and whispered calming words into her sleep. And all at once he fancied she had been with him for many years and was dying. He had a sudden clear feeling that he would not survive her death. He would lie down beside her and want to die with her. He pressed his face into the pillow beside her head and kept it there for a long time.
他跪在她的床边,见她烧得呼吸急促,微微呻吟,他用脸贴在她的脸,轻声安慰她,直到她睡着。刹那间,他幻想着自己与她在一起已有漫漫岁月,而现在她正行将死去。他突然清楚地意识到自己不能挺过她死去的这一劫,他得躺在她身边,与她一同赴死,他挨着她的头,把脸埋在枕头里过了许久。
Now he was standing at the window trying to call that moment to account. What could it have been if not love declaring itself to him? But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated; he had seen her only once before in his life. Was it simply the hysteria of a man who aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it? His unconscious was so cowardly that the best partner he could choose for his life comedy was this miserable provincial waitress with practically no chance at all to enter his life.
现在他站在窗前,极力回想那一刻的情景。若他清楚感受到的这种感情不是爱,又会是什么呢?但这是爱吗?那种想死在她身边的情感显然有些夸张:在这以前他仅仅见了她一面!那么,明明知道这种爱不甚适当,难道这只是一个歇斯底里的男人感到自欺之需而做出的举动吗?他的无意识是如此懦弱,一个小小的玩笑就使他选择了这样一个可怜的、压根儿不可能进入他生活的乡间女招待,作为他的最佳伴侣!
He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he really wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to want because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
他生着自己的气,直到他弄明白自己的茫然无措其实也很自然我们是永远也不知道自己要什么的,因为人的生命只有一次,我们既不能把它与我们前世相比较,也无法使其在后世完美度过。
There is no means of testing which decision is better because there is no basis for comparison. We live even-thing as it comes. Without warming, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
没有比较的基点,因此没有任何办法可以检验何种选择更好我们经历着生活中突然临头的一切,毫无防备,就像演员进入初排如果生活的第一排练便是生活本身,那生活有什么价值呢?
"Einmal ist keinmal", says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
“Finmal ist Keinmal"托马斯自言自语,这句德国谚语说,只发生过一次的事就像压根儿没有发生过.如果生命属于我们只有一次,我们当然也可以说根本没有过生命。
英语学习笔记:
1. I saw him standing at the window of his flat and looking across the courtyard at the opposite walls, not knowing what to do.
英语点睛:动名词的使用使句子更加精练。
2. What could it have been if not love declaring itself to him?
英语点睛:l declare在这个句子中的用法起到了画龙点睛的作用。
3. We can never know what to want because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
英语点睛:neither... nor的句型虽然常见,但是很实用。
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1. This is due to the child desperately wanting his/her moth-er, knowing that this is the person who would always want to be there for them. and the mothers deep desire to protect her child from harm.
(表现亲子关系)这是因为她的孩子非常想得到母亲的帮助,他们知道母亲是随时都愿意来到自己身边,给予帮助的人,而母亲也有保护她的孩子免受伤害的强烈愿望。
2. The government declared him a person non grata.
(表示宣称)该国政府宣布他为不受欢迎的人。
3. Although neither nor them remembered the occasion, Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby.
(表示二者皆非)尽管两人已记不清那段往事,可当黛安娜头一次见到她未来的丈夫时,还只是个孩子。
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导语:幸福,是指一个人的需求得到满足而产生喜悦快乐与稳定的心理状态。幸福感=R*满足感(R:幸福商)。幸福划分为四个维度,满足、快乐、投入、意义。每个维度的幸福都是好的,但是将浅层次的快乐转化为深远的满足感和持久的幸福感是一件益处更大的事情。你知道“幸福”在英语中怎么说吗?现在就随读文网网小编一起看看这方面的英语表达吧。
Hearty congratulations wish you many years happiness
祝你们幸福并致最美好的祝愿。
We all join hearty congratulations best wishes for your happiness
谨此我们致以衷心的祝贺和最美好的祝愿,祝你们幸福美满。
My very best wishes to you and husband!
祝你们夫妻幸福快乐!
May you both be happy!
祝你们两位幸福。
Please accept my best wishes for your continued happiness and well being.
请接受我的美好祝愿,祝你们永远美满,幸福。
Here's wishing you both a lifetime of happiness.
祝你们白头到老,幸福美满。
Hearty congratulations on your marriage best wish for your future happiness.
衷心祝贺你喜结良缘并祝将来幸福美满。
I wish you happiness
祝您幸福。
May you be happy!
祝你幸福!
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活动本身在大多数情况下本身就很有趣,而且可逐渐的使你的愿望得以实现。下面是读文网小编为大家带来英语经典美文:通往幸福的道路,希望大家喜欢!
If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.
只要你观察一下周围那些你可称之为幸福的男男女女,就会看出他们都有某些共同之处。在这些共同之处中有一点是最重要的:那就是活动本身,它在大多数情况下本身就很有趣,而且可逐渐的使你的愿望得以实现。生性喜爱孩子的妇女,能够从抚养子女中得到这种满足。艺术家、作家和科学家如果对自己的工作感到满意,也能以同样的方式得到快乐。不过,还有很多是较低层次的快乐。许多在城里工作的人到了周末自愿地在自家的庭院里做无偿的劳动,春天来时,他们就可尽情享受自己创造的美景带来的快乐。
The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his children's noise unendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen--a different diet, or more exercise, or what not.
在我看来,整个关于快乐的话题一向都被太严肃的对待过了。过去一直有这样的看法:如果没有一种生活的理论或者宗教信仰,人是不可能幸福的。也许那些由于理论不好才导致不快乐的人需要一种较好的理论帮助他们重新快活起来,就像你生过病需要吃补药一样。但是,正常情况下,一个人不吃补药也应当是健康的;没有理论也应当是幸福的。真正有关系的是一些简单的事情。如果一个男人喜爱他的妻子儿女,事业有成,而且无论白天黑夜,春去秋来,总是感到高兴,那么不管他的理论如何,都会是快乐的。反之,如果他讨厌自己的妻子,受不了孩子们的吵闹,而且害怕上班;如果他白天盼望夜晚,而到了晚上又巴望着天明,那么,他所需要的就不是一种新的理论,而是一种新的生活——改变饮食习惯,多锻炼身体等等。
Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
人是动物,他的幸福更多的时候取决于其生理状况而非思想状况。这是一个很庸俗的结论,然而我无法使自己怀疑它。我确信,不幸福的商人与其找到新的理论来使自己幸福,还不如每天步行六英里更见效。
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金钱可使你上天堂,也可以送你下地狱,甚至我们都离不开金钱,今天读文网小编在这里为大家分享一些有关金钱经典英语名言,希望大家会喜欢这些英文语录!
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” Ronald Reagan
“Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.” Robert Frost
“When I had money everyone called me brother.” Polish proverb
“For I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love.” The Beatles
“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” Earl Wilson
“Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” Aristotle
“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.” Will Rogers
“My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil.” JP Getty.
“I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died” Malcolm Forbes
“Frugality includes all the other virtues.” Cicero
“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.” Gandhi
“He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn
“A treasure is to be valued for its own sake and not for what it will buy.” Graham Greene
“The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.” Woodrow Wilson
“I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process.” Benjamin Harrison
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Edison
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” Zig Ziglar
“In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” Robert Arnott
“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” James W. Frick
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” Carl Sandburg
“Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.” Henry Fielding
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” Ben Franklin
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下面是读文网小编为大家带来英语经典美文:幸福是一种态度,希望大家喜欢!
The 92-year-old,petite,well-poised and proud lady,who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock,with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied,even though she was legally blind,moved to a nursing home today.
这位92岁高龄、个子小巧、自信而又骄傲的老太太,每天早晨8点就穿戴整齐了。她的头发时髦的护在帽子里,妆也化得恰倒好处,即使她今天合情合理地失明、要搬进一家养老院也不例外。
Her husband of 70 years recently passed away,making the move necessary.
一同走过70个岁月的丈夫新近去世,搬到养老院是必然之举。
After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home,she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.As she maneuvered her walker to elevator I provided a visual description of her tiny room.
在养老院的走廊上等了半天之后,她被告之房间已准备就绪,她亲切地笑了。当她推起助步车进入电梯时,我对她的小房间进行了一番视觉描述。
“I love it,”she started with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
“我真喜欢这房间,”她热情洋溢的说,好象一个8岁的孩子刚刚得到了一只小狗一样。
“Mrs.Jones, you haven’t seen the room…just wait.”
“琼斯夫人,你还没有看到你的房间呢……还是不慌下结论。”
“That doesn’t have anything to do with it,”she replied.“Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged…it’s how I arrange my mind.I already decided to love it,It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up.I have a choice;I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work or get out of bed be thankful for the ones that do.Each day is a gift,and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away…just for this time in my life.”
“那和我喜不喜欢这房间没关系,”她回答说。“幸福是你事先就决定了的。我喜不喜欢房子并不取决于家具怎么摆放……而是取决于我怎么想。我已决定要喜欢它……就像每天早晨一睁开眼所作的某个决定一样。我可以作出选择:躺在床上,抱怨身体不便带来的困难可以打发一天;或者翻身起床感激某些部位还能活动自如,也可以度过一天。每一天都是一件礼物,只要睁开眼,我就会全神贯注于崭新的一天和收藏多年的幸福记忆……这一切仅为了今生此刻.”
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他们为我们操劳了一辈子,付出了所有青春,我们真的应该要做个孝顺懂事的好孩子!下面是读文网小编为大家带来经典英语美文:只要你幸福就好,希望大家喜欢!
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.
我们竭尽全力想让我们的儿女们过得更好,而结果却是适得其反。
For my grandchildren, I d know better.
对我的孙辈们,我就明智得多了。
I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and home-made ice cream and leftover meatloaf.
我真的希望他们能够了解什么是兄长传下来的旧衣服,家制的冰淇淋,以及吃剩的肉糕。
I really would.
我真的希望。
My cherished grandson,
我的宝贝孙子,
I hope you learn humility by surviving failure and that you learn to be honest even when no one is looking.
我希望你在经受失败的考验之后能学会谦卑,也希望你能学会诚实,即使在没有人注视你的时候。
I hope you learn to make your bed ,
我希望你能学会自己叠被子,
and mow the lawn and wash the car-and I hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen.
自己剪草坪,自己洗车--我还希望在你满十六岁时没有人送给你一辆崭新的轿车。
It will be good if at least one time you can see a baby calf born,
假如你至少有一次机会看见小牛犊出生,
and you have a good friend to be with you if you ever have to put your old dog to sleep.
假如你不得不为你的老狗送终,那时有一位好朋友在场为你作伴--那样该有多好啊!
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
我希望你能为自己的所信仰与人斗得眼青脸肿。
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother.
我希望你能和你弟弟共一间卧室。
And it is all right to draw a line down the middle of the room,
即使你在卧室中间划一条分界线也没关系。
but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he s scared, I hope you ll let him.
可是,当弟弟因为害怕而要爬进你的被窝时,我希望你会接纳他。
And when you want to see a Disney movie and your kid brother wants to tag along,I hope you take him.
当你要出去看迪斯尼电影,你的小弟弟想做你的小尾巴时,我希望你能带上他。
I hope you have to walk uphill with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
我希望你能和朋友们一起爬山,而在你所生活的城市里做这项运动不会有什么危险。
If you want a slingshot, I hope your father teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.
如果你想要一把弹弓,我希望你父亲能教你怎样自己做一把,而不是为你买一把现成的。
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books, and when you learn to use computers,
我还希望你能学会挖泥巴和读书;而当你学会使用电脑时,
you also learn how to add and subtract in your head.
你也应该学会加减法的心算。
I hope you get razzed by friends when you have your first crush on a girl,
当你第一次恋上一个女孩时,我希望你会受到朋友们的嘲弄;
and that when you talk back to your mother you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.
而当你跟你母亲顶嘴时,希望她叫你尝一尝象牙肥皂的滋味。
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on the stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
但愿你能在爬山时弄破膝盖上的皮,或者在炉子上烧伤手,或者让舌头粘在结冰的旗杆上。
I hope you get sick when someone blows smoke in your face.
我希望吸烟者对着你的脸上喷吐烟雾时,你会感到恶心。
I don t care if you try beer once, but I hope you won t like it.
如果你尝试喝一次啤酒,我不会在意;但是我希望你不会喜欢上它。
And if a friend offers you a joint or any drugs, I hope you are smart enough to realize that person is not your friend.
如果有一位朋友请你吸一口含大麻的香烟,或者任何毒品,我希望你明智地意识到他不是你的朋友。
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your grandpa or go fishing with your uncle.
我当然希望你能抽时间来陪你爷爷在门廊上坐一坐,或者陪你叔叔钓钓鱼。
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a neighbor s window,
如果你把捧球扔进了邻居的窗户,我希望你母亲惩罚你。
and that she hugs you and kisses you when you give her a plaster of pared mold of your hand.
如果你能剪掉指甲,用石膏做一只自己的手的模型送给你妈,我希望她会给你拥抱和亲吻。
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness.
我希望你能经历:艰难的岁月,挫折和失望;希望你努力工作,幸福快乐!
随着我们的不断成长,父母也在渐渐老去!不知不觉,他们的脸上多了皱纹,头发也花白了不少... 每每看到他们沧桑的背影,心就一下子揪了起来...他们为我们操劳了一辈子,付出了所有青春,我们真的应该要做个孝顺懂事的好孩子!
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优美的文字于细微处传达出美感,并浸润着人们的心灵。通过英语美文,不仅能够感受语言之美,领悟语言之用,还能产生学习语言的兴趣。度过一段美好的时光,即感悟生活,触动心灵。下面是读文网小编为大家带来经典英语美文赏析,希望大家喜欢!
What is the definition of "happiness?"Is it material wealth filled with fancy cars, a dream house,exteravagant furs and jewelry? Or is happiness simply having a roof over your head? Food in the fridge?Having a child? A pet?A swimming pool?A designer Gucci bag?Parents?Grandchildren?Love?Money?The perfct job?Winning the Lottery?
According to the American Heritage Dictionary,"happiness"is derived from the Middle English word hap—meaning"Luck."But does happiness really have anything to do with"luck?"Based on this description,one could assume that if you avoide* * **tal traffic accident but got fired by coming late to work,you would be filled with"happiness?"Is it luck or what you make of it?Maybe,"happiness"is exactly defined by its indirect alias:happiness-perhaps,happiness is in fact defined by the fortune thatwe permit to happen.
Do you recall a time—let's say when you were about 5 years old—what defined happiness back then?Was it getting a puppy for Christmas?
Or maybe,you were a child of divorce;and all you wanted was for Mom and Dad to get back together again?Then as you got older,you were hoping that someone would ask you to the prom that would've made your day,maybe your life for the moment.During college,good grades made you happy,but it was short-lived.Becaust in the real world,you had to look for a job,and competition was stark.It's an employer's world you thought.But then, you got the perfect job—now you could be happy—or could you?
Life requires more than just what we want. Inevitably,one must understand to truly find"happiness,"he must make his own happiness "happen".Sounds a bit redundant,but truthfully,there is no set guidelines that will bring one happiness.There is no "magic wand"we can wave to bring joy into our lives.Human nature thrives on the thrill of the chase.We dream and we hope for the next big brea—it is the grand adventure of licing.
We are hopeless creatures of comfort.We like having and accumulating things.Whether one admits to it or not,to a certain degree,we all try to keep up with"the Jones".We work so we can pay our rents,mortgages, credit card debts,school loans,car payments...the list goes on and on.And at some point,we realize,that aside from having most of what we want,we still arem't happy.Now since we've learned to adapt to new standards which we've created for ourselves,we find that we have less time,less patience,less sleep,which equates to more stress,more worry and more aggravation.So,is happiness honestly juest comprised of"things"?
Sometimes,we virtually reade our lives for not only basic necessities,but for excessive items and services as well.We become so obsessed with finding happiness,that we lose sight of the fact that happiness is within—always.Certainly you've heard of individuals trying to "find themselves",or"rediscover themselves".The reason they are attempting these innovantive approaches is because they are seeking inner happiness.But the point has been missed:Happiness is already there.
Disappointments and reagedies in life will come and go,but happiness never leaves you.The human's capacity to be resilient to reials is unfathomable.We can lose our jobs,but be grateful for our spouses.We can lose our homes to nature,but be thankful to alive.
Happiness is a perception of each indivdual.We are instincively compelled to find fault in our lives.By human nature,we begin our "fault-find-ing"mission the moment we're capable of free-thinking.It is then,that we lose sense of self-worth and the bigger picture of vitality altogether.Stuck in the patterns of the happiness paradox,we simply cannot find where our happiness has gone.
It's not a matter of bargaining,it's not an issue of money or fame—instead,happiness is what you resolve to accept.If we live through optimis-tic hope;if we dare to dream;if we empower ourselves to fully live;then we have regained our sense of happiness,There is no in berween.There is no other replacement.We only have one physical life to live—we have no choice but to make the most of it.
“幸福”是什么?幸福是拥有豪华的汽车、梦想的居室、名贵的裘皮和珠宝等物质上的富足嘛?或者,幸福其实很简单——有遮风避雨的住所,冰箱里有食物,有孩子、宠物、游泳池、Gucci的包,有父母、子孙、有爱情、金钱和理想的工作,彩票中奖了呢?
在《美国传统字典》中,幸福是从中古英语“Hap”一词演变而来,“Hap”意为“好运”。幸福真的与“好运”有关联吗?基于此,想想看,如果你在一场必死无疑的交通事故中幸免于难,却因此迟到,导致被老板炒鱿鱼。对此,我们应该感到“幸福”吗?这是好运吗?还是要看个人如何看待你能回忆起你5岁时对幸福的理解吗?那时,幸福是从圣诞树上摘下的一只小狗吗?或者爸爸妈妈离婚了,你唯一的愿望就是他们能和好如初,重新生活在一起?当你渐渐长大,你希望有人会邀请你参加舞会,希望所有的日子都凝固在那一天,那一刻。上大学期间,考试得了高分让你无比开心,但这种幸福感毕竟是短暂的。因为在现实中,你得找一份工作,而社会竞争也相当激烈。于是,你就会想,这是一个雇主的世界。随后,你找到了一份理想的工作——现在的你很开心,是吗?
生活向我们索要的远比我们想要的多。一个人必须明白,要想真正找到幸福,他就必须让自己幸福。可能听起来有些多余,但确是如此——生活中,没有能代来幸福的现成的指南,也没有挥一挥就能带来欢乐的魔棒。人性在追求幸福的刺激中不断升级、完善。我们梦想着,期望着下一个大的转变——这就是生活中的大冒险了。
我们是无助的享乐者,喜欢拥有和积攒东西。不论人们承认与否,一定程度上,我们都在相互攀比。我们之所以工作,是因为要付房租,偿还抵押贷款,还清信用卡透支费用,偿付助学贷款,买车,等等。此类费用接连而至,让我们应接不暇。于是,我们会突然意识到,尽管拥有了想要的一切,我们仍然不幸福。自从适应了自己定下的新生活标准,我们的时间短了,耐性没了,睡眠少了,但压力大了,焦虑多了,脾气也暴躁了。鉴于此,幸福真的是由“物质”组成的吗?
事实上,有时,我们不仅用生命交换生活必需品,还用生命交换多余的物质享受和服务。我们这般沉迷于追求幸福,却忽略了一个事实——幸福一直就在我们心中。当然,你一定听过这样的事,即有些人一直都在苦苦“找寻自我”或“重新发现自我”。他们创新尝试的理由只不过是想找寻心灵深处的幸福。但他们忽略了一点,即幸福从头至尾到在心中。
失望和悲伤在生命中交替轮回,但幸福从不会舍你而去。人类对困难的适应能力无可限量。我们可以失去工作,但会为拥有爱人而感恩不已;我们可以流离失所,但会为活着而心存感激。
幸福是个人的一种感知。我们本能地受限于外界,找寻着生活的瑕疵,出于人的天性,我们从有能力自由思考的那刻起,就开始对生活吹毛求疵。也就在那时,我们失去了对自我价值的认知,也失去了生命的活力,陷于幸福的矛盾中,找不到幸福的方向。
幸福是你决定去接受的东西,没有任何商量的余地,它于金钱或名誉毫无瓜葛。只要我们活在乐观希望之中,敢于大胆梦想,活得简单纯粹,那么,我们就会重新拥有幸福的感觉。那种感觉并非悬于幸于不幸之间的真空地带,也无任何替代品。我们只能活一次——除了好好活着,我们别无选择。
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其实生活中的幸福很简单,不是金钱,不是权力。而是小小的一些小事,家人能在一起吃饭是幸福,拥有一个完整的家就是幸福。每个人身边都有幸福,只是还没有去发现。下面读文网小编为大家带来爱情幸福唯美英语句子,欢迎大家阅读!
do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high. 不要因为峭壁是高的,便让你的爱情坐在峭壁上。
don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. 不要因为结束而哭泣,微笑吧,为你的曾经拥有。
don’t try to hard, the best things come when you least expect them to。不要着急,最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。
don’t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn’t willing to waste their time on you。不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。
grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. goodness, remembrance and love have no end.忧伤、悲痛、仇恨只是短暂的感觉,而善良、记忆和爱却是永久的情愫。
i dropped a tear in the ocean, and when i find it thats the day i will stop loving you.我的一颗眼泪掉进了海洋,当我找到它的那一天就是我停止爱你的那一天。
if i could only be with you in my dreams ,baby, well ... i would want to sleep forever.如果只有在梦里才能和你在一起,那么,宝贝,我宁愿长睡不起。
if i cried for every time that i thought about you i would end up drowning.如果每次想起你我都要哭的话,我将会最终被淹死。
it is never too late to fall in love.爱永远不会嫌晚。
a joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.内心只要有爱在燃烧,就不然有快乐。
don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. 不要因为结束而哭泣,微笑吧。
don‘t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to. 不要着急,最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。
don‘t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn‘t willing to waste their time on you. 不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。
i love you not because of who you are, but because of who i am when i am with you. 我爱你,不是因为你是一个怎样的人,而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。
if you love the life you live,you will live a life of love.如果你爱你的生活,你的生活就会充满爱。
i’ve dicided to stick to love.hates is too great a burden to bear.我决定要不断的给予爱,恨是不能承受的负担。
just because someone doesn‘t love you the way you want them to, doesn‘t mean they don‘t love you with all they have. 爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式来爱你,那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。
love cures people--both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.爱能医人--奉献者和接受者皆然。
love is the beauty of soul.爱是心灵之美。
maybe god wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful. 在遇到梦中人之前,上天也许会安排我们先遇到别的人;在我们终于遇见心仪的人时,便应当心存感激。
never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 纵然伤心,也不要愁眉不展,因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。
no man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t make you cry. 没有人值得你流泪,值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。
the worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can‘t have them. 失去某人,最糟糕的莫过于,他近在身旁,却犹如远在天边。
where there is great love. there are great miracles.哪里有爱,哪里就有奇迹。
just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to,doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. 爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式爱你,那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。
life is the flower for which love is the honey.生命如花,爱情是蜜。
love does not consist of gazing at each other ,but in looking outward together in the same direction. 爱不在于彼此凝视,而是注视着同一个方向。
love is a light that never dims.爱是一盏永不昏暗的明灯。
love is hard to get into, but harder to get out of.爱很难投入,但一旦投入,便更难走出。
love means never having to say you are sorry.爱,意味着永不说后悔。
make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.在你尝试了解他人和盼望他人了解你之前,先把你变成一个更好的人和了解自己的人。
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其实生活中的幸福很简单,不是金钱,不是权力。而是小小的一些小事,家人能在一起吃饭是幸福,拥有一个完整的家就是幸福。每个人身边都有幸福,只是还没有去发现。下面读文网小编为大家带来幸福爱情英语句子,欢迎大家阅读!
I am a slow walker , but I never walk backwards.
我走得很慢,但是我从不倒退。
I love you, love can not my world without you
我爱你,爱到我的世界不能没有你
Got to lose, is always better than never gets no more cuts.
得到了再失去,总是比从来就没有得到更伤人
It is because of heart bottom touch that empty, so he just so painful.
就是因为触碰到心底的那一点空,所以才会那么痛。
Touch the air once again miss you breath.
用手触摸空气,再一次怀念你的气息
A ray of sunshine, outline for you my all memory.
一缕阳光,勾勒出我对你所有的记忆 。
The course of true love never did run smooth。
真诚的爱情之路永不会是平坦的。
My world does not need too many people to understand
我的世界不需要太多人懂.
And then deep memory, also has forgotten the day
再深的记忆,也有淡忘的一天。
Without you by my side, I will be better off than you
没有你在我身边,我会比你过得更好。
Determined to be tired heartless indifference.
有心才会累 无心者无所谓.
And the fear in the heart with obtained after the betrayal
最怕在用了心之后 得到的是背叛
Everyone has a sad, want to hide but he who denies all confesses all.
每个人都有一段悲伤,想隐藏却欲盖弥彰。
If this is not the end if I still love you
如果这不是结局如果我还爱你.
Everyone has a sad, want to hide but he who denies all confesses all.
每个人都有一段悲伤,想隐藏却欲盖弥彰。
Happy, stop, rain, you turn and later in fall.
快乐,停止了,雨滴,在你转身以后 落下。
The world without you, unable to continue
没有你的世界 ,无法继续
I’m tired of people who judge me without knowing my history.
我讨厌那些不了解我,却对我指手画脚的人。
I was waiting for your attention till my heart says no.
等待你的关心,等到我关上了心。
The colour of a sad, sad haunted, sadness and me company.
泛着忧伤的色彩,悲伤萦绕,忧伤和我作伴。
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
忍耐是痛苦的,但它的果实是甜蜜的。
to get over you is the hardest thing in the world.
遗忘你,是世界最难的事情。
Did meet, the total is better than never to meet.
曾经相遇,总胜过从未碰头。
Sadness into the river upstream, I for who the desperate.
悲伤逆流成河,我为谁而不顾一切。
Lonely lonely, I am still thinking about someone.
孤独寂寞的时候,我会静静的想着某人。
No promise, only said not over of lies.
没有不变的承诺,只有说不完的谎言。
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其实快乐是一种责任,每个人有责任使自己快乐并把这种快乐传染给别人。下面读文网小编为大家带来晨读优美英语散文欣赏,欢迎大家阅读。
1.pebble n.卵石,小圆石
2.definition n.定义,释义
3.invalid adj.(法律上)无效的;站不住脚的 n.残疾者
4.dividend n.红利,股息;回报
5.accomplishment n.甩.完成;成就
6.infectious adj.传染的,有传染性的
7.shrink v.(使)起皱,(使)收缩
8.embitter vt.使受苦,使难受
9.repel vt使厌恶;逐回,驱除;排斥
10.make-believe n.假装,假扮,幻想
11.throng vt.蜂拥,群集 n.聚集的人群,一大群
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想要学习有关金钱的英语对话吗?下面读文网小编为大家带来关于金钱常用英语对话,欢迎大家学习!
gordon: hey, what's up?
molly : nothing much, just the usual. how about you?
gordon: everything is a-ok. i'm going to see a magician tonight, do you want to come?
molly : i'd love to, but i am short on cash.
gordon: no problem, i will spot you the cash.
molly : you always loan me dough, then you charge me interest.
gordon: i have changed, i am not so greedy any more.
molly : i don't think friends and money should mix.
gordon: what kind a friend do you think i am? you are in a pinch and i want to help you out.
molly : well, i am in a bind, and i could use some extra greenbacks.
gordon: great, here is 20 bucks, now, next week just give me the 30 back, plus ten dollars for interest.
molly : what?
gordon: relax, i was just kidding.
戈登:嗨!最近怎么样?
莫莉:老样子,没什么新鲜的。你呢?
戈登:一切顺利。今晚我要去看魔术,你来吗?
莫莉:我很想去,可我钱不够花了。
戈登:没问题,我会借给你。
莫莉:你总是借给我钱,然后再收利息。
戈登:我现在改了,不再那么财迷了。
莫莉:我觉得朋友之间应该明算帐。
戈登:你把我当成什么朋友了?你有困难,我想帮你。
莫莉:好吧,我现在有困难,我需要一些余钱。
戈登:很好,这里是二十块钱。下星期你要还我三十,十块钱利息。
莫莉:什么?
戈登:别紧张,我在开玩笑。
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