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Unit9WhatIsHappiness?；JohnCiardi；(abridged)；Therighttopursuehappines；Itis,ofcourse,un-America；Andatthesametimetheforce；Orlookatanyofthewomen’sm；Oncepastthevaguelyuplift；Obviouslyno
Unit 9 What Is Happiness?John Ciardi(abridged) The right to pursue happiness is issued to Americans with their birth certificates, but no one seems quite sure which way it runs. It may be we are issued a hunting license but offered no game. Jonathan Swift seemed to think so when he attacked the idea of happiness as “the possession of being well-deceived,” the felicity of being “a fool among knaves.” For Swift saw society as Vanity Fair, the land of false goals.It is, of course, un-American to think in terms of fools and knaves. We do, however, seem to be dedicated to the idea of buying our way to happiness. We shall all have made it to Heaven when we possess enough.And at the same time the forces of American commercialism are hugely dedicated to making us deliberately unhappy. Advertising is one of our major industries, and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them ― and to create them faster than any man’s budget can satisfy them. For that matter, our whole economy is based on a dedicated insatiability. We are taught that to possess is to be happy, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. It was only a few years ago, to cite a single example, that car dealers across the country were flying banners that read &You Auto Buy Now.& They were calling upon Americans, as an act approaching patriotism, to buy at once, with money they did not have, automobiles they did not really need, and which they would be required to grow tired of by the time the next year’s models were released.Or look at any of the women’s magazines. There, as Bernard DeVoto once pointed out, advertising begins as poetry in the front pages and ends as pharmacopoeia and therapy in the back pages. The poetry of the front matter is the dream of perfect beauty. This is the baby skin that must be hers. These, the flawless teeth. This, the perfumed breath she must exhale. This, the sixteen-year-old figure she must display at forty, at fifty, at sixty, and forever.Once past the vaguely uplifting fiction and feature articles, the reader finds the other face of the dream in the back matter. This is the harness into which Mother must strap herself in order to display that perfect figure. These, the chin straps she must sleep in. This is the salve that restores all, this is her laxative, these are the tablets that melt away fat, these are the hormones of perpetual youth, these are the stockings that hide varicose veins.Obviously no half-sane person can be completely persuaded either by such poetry or by such pharmacopoeia and orthopedics. Yet someone is obviously trying to buy the dream as offered and spending billions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers, but what are they trying to buy?The idea &happiness,& to be sure, will not sit still for easy definitions: the best one can do is to try to set some extremes to the idea and then work in toward the middle. To think of happiness as acquisitive and competitive will do to set the materialistic extreme. To think of it as the idea one senses in, say, a holy man of India will do to set the spiritual extreme. That holy man’s ideal of happiness is in needing nothing from outside himself. In wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. He sits immobile, rapt in contemplation, free even of his own body.7 Or nearly free of it. If devout admirers bring him food, if not, he starves indifferently. Why be concerned? What is physical is an illusion to him. Contemplation is his joy and he achieves it through a fantastically demanding discipline, the accomplishment of which is itself a joy within him.But, perhaps because I am Western, I doubt such catatonic happiness, as I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market. What is certain is that his way of happiness would be torture to almost any Western man. Yet these extremes will still serve to frame the area within which all of us must find some sort of balance. Thoreau ― a creature of both Eastern and Western thought ― had his own firm sense of that balance. His aim was to save on the low levels in order to spend on the high.Possession for its own sake or in competition with the rest of the neighborhood would have been Thoreau’s idea of the low levels. The active discipline of heightening one’s perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high.10 What he saved from the low was time and effort he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he would put into feeding himself only as much effort as would keep him functioning for more important efforts.Happiness is never more than partial. There are no pure states of mankind. Whatever else happiness may be, it is neither in having nor in being, but in becoming. What the Founding Fathers declared for us as an inherent right, we should do well to remember, was not happiness but the pursuit of happiness. What they might have underlined, could they have foreseen the happiness-market, is the cardinal fact that happiness is in the pursuit itself, in the meaningful pursuit of what is life-engaging and life-revealing, which is to say, in the idea of becoming. A nation is not measured by what it possesses or wants to possess, but by what it wants to become. 什么是幸福追求幸福是美国人与生俱来被赋予的权利，但是似乎没有人确切地知道怎样到达幸福。这就像是我们有猎物执照却无猎可捕一样。当乔纳森?斯威夫特抨击这种“着迷于被欺骗的状态”，这种成为“白痴中的傻瓜”的快乐感觉时，他也是这样想的。斯威夫特把整个社会看做一个名利场，一片充满虚幻目标的土地。当然，站在傻瓜和白痴的角度看问题是非美国式思维，然而，我们似乎已经现身于用金钱购买幸福的想法中了，（我们以为）当我们拥有的足够多时，我们便一定可以去往天堂。与此同时，美国实利主义正在很大程度上致使我们不幸福。广告业是我们的主要商业之一，然而它的存在绝不是满足欲望，而是在刺激欲望的产生――而且它让欲望产生的速度远超出我们挣钱满足欲望的速度，正因如此，我们的整个经济都建立在奋不顾身的贪婪之上。我们被告知幸福就是拥有，然后再让我们产生欲望。我们甚至被告知需求就是我们的责任。举个例子，仅几年前，全国上下的汽车销售行就全都挂满飘扬的横幅，上面写着“你该买辆车了。”它们在号召美国人这种爱国行为，让他们用还未到手的钱来购买本不需要的车，并在第二年新款车发布时厌恶它。或者说，再来看看女性杂志吧。这里，像伯纳德?德沃托曾经提出的，开始的前几页是首诗，结束的几页变成了处方书和治疗方法。开始时的诗歌是绝世佳人的美梦。她拥有婴儿般的皮肤，洁白如玉的牙齿，芳香的气息。不管她40,50,60岁都有着16岁的身材。一旦看过这些模糊的却令人振奋的虚构及特写，读者马上就看到结尾她美梦的另一面。为了保持完美身材，这些母亲不得不用带子把自己束缚住，这是她们不得不在睡觉前佩戴的枕颌带，那是她们的万能药膏，这是她们的泻药，这是她们溶解脂肪的药片，那是她们永葆青春的激素，这是她们掩盖静脉曲张时要穿的长袜。很明显，没人会很痴狂地完全相信书上的诗情画意或被给出的处方啊整形外科啊完全说服，但每年还是有人有意花上亿去尝试买梦。很显然，幸福市场从不缺顾客，但是这些顾客要买的到底是什么？诚然，“幸福”这个词很难定义，一个人最多能做到的就是努力确定这个概念的极端情况，然后折中取之。这种认为幸福就是获取和竞争的人是极端物质主义。而像传说中的一个印度圣人那样认为幸福就是思考和观念的人便是极端唯心主义。那个圣人对幸福的思考就是对自己身外之物无所求。既然无欲就无缺。他坐如磐石，专注于冥想，摆脱了肉体的束缚，或者说，几乎脱离了肉体生活。如果虔诚的朝拜者给他送吃的，他就吃，不给，他就漠然挨饿。为什么要关心这些呢？物质对他来说就是虚幻的东西。冥想就是他的乐趣，通过不可思议的自律他获得了乐趣，自律本身就是他内心的乐趣。但是，可能我是西方人的缘故，我对这种紧于精神的幸福表示怀疑，就像怀疑幸福市场一样。能确定的是，他这种到达幸福的方法在所有西方人看来都是一种折磨。而这些极端想法驱使我们必须在这个范围内找到某种程度的平衡。梭罗――一个拥有东西方两种思维的人，对幸福有他自己的严格定义。他的目标是为了享受更多高层次的幸福而节约低层次幸福。在梭罗看来，为了幸福去占有或跟邻居攀比的做法是低层次的幸福，通过自律来提高自身对自然界级永恒之物领悟的做法是高层次的幸福，他从低层次幸福上节约来给高层次幸福的是时间和精力。梭罗当然不赞同挨饿，但他喂饱自己只是为了让身体有能力在更重要的事情上发挥力量。幸福不可部分取之。人没有纯粹的状态，不管幸福是什么，它既不在于拥有，也不在于享受，而在于实现。先驱们声称我们拥有与生俱来的权利，但最好记住，我们的权利不是幸福，而是追求幸福。如果他们可以预见幸福市场的话，或许他们会强调幸福在于追求本身，在于用生命去追寻并获得人生启迪的意义，也就是说在于追求的过程。衡量一个国家不是看它占有或想占有什么，而是看它怎么实现。 包含各类专业文献、幼儿教育、小学教育、应用写作文书、中学教育、专业论文、Unit 9 What is happiness课文翻译综合教程二15等内容。
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What is Happiness?
on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 |
ShareGood question?
And, what does it have to do with property investing?
Well, let me see if I can make a tie in …
Birthday Gift
For my birthday last month I received
one was a book called “Gittinomic$” written by a man named Ross Gittins.
Basically, it’s a book about econom he’s also a writer for some of the biggest newspapers in Australia.
I just finished reading it, and I’d highly recommend it to everyone.
I didn’t always agree with his opinions and I found his tone of voice sometimes too strong (e.g. passing off opinion as if it were fact!) but, it’s good (my opinion!).
And, it got me thinking and got me looking at things from a different perspective.
But, the chapter I found the most engaging and the most enlightening is the last chapter.
Chapter 15 titled “Happiness.”
In my opinion, everyone could benefit from reading this chapter.
It’s was a real eye- a real wake- a real bring me back to earth message.
I Used to Know How …
While reading the chapter I couldn’t help but think that I used to know – long ago – about happiness.
I remember back to when I was young and playing with my friends.
We were happy.
No one had to teach us how to be happy, we just knew how on our own.
It seems to have come naturally.
Now that I’m an adult, I don’t seem to have as much natural – instinctive – happiness.
Maybe I’m trying too hard?
Or, maybe I’m playing the wrong game?
Mr Gittins gave me some ideas to ponder …
Recommended Reading
Yes, I believe you should read the chapter on Happiness.
But, if you don’t have time for the whole chapter then I’d like to share with you a particular section that really struck me hard.
Ross Gittins talks about a leading scholar, professor Ed Diener of the University of Illinois, who’s a social scientist working on – get this – happiness research.
Anyway, Professor Diener’s research came up with 3 ‘steps people can take to ensure they are as happy as they can be.’
I’ll tell you the three steps but first let me warn you – not one of them has to do with money!
Maybe that’ I sometimes try to correlate money with happiness.
Could my logic be flawed?
3 Step to Happiness.
So, the 3 steps to happiness ( read the book for the juicy details!):
Well, that it.
Now you know the secret(s) to happiness.
As I read “the steps” in the book I I knew these steps already.
I guess in the process of growing up and becoming an adult, I must have forgotten them along the way.
Consequently, I haven’t been as happy as I could have been over the years.
Now, I’ll just have to make up for lost time and make a point to be a lot happier from now on!
What does this have to do with property investing?
I’m not sure … maybe happy people make better property investors?
What do you reckon?
How, did I do with my tie- how this article ties in with property investing?
I agree – I failed.
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(原创)什么是幸福&(&What&is&happiness?)&&(中英双语)
(原创)什么是幸福 ( What is happiness?)& (中英双语)
&Many writers have talked about what
happiness&&is so
far.&&“Happiness depends upon
ourselves”, “The purpose of our lives is to be happy “, are two
quotes about happiness by Aristotle and Dalai Lama, respectively.
Answers about happiness even vary among the ordinary people as
well. Last year, CCTV, the top TV station in China, performed a
random street survey for happiness. As expected, Chinese citizens
gave many different views on the happiness, depending on their
social ranks. In my opinion, happiness is a feeling of joy and love
in my heart. It is a moment when I have no worries and fears in the
living environment and my personal life.
许多作家都谈过什么是幸福。“幸福在于我们自己”“我们生活的目的就是为了幸福“，分别出自亚里士多德和达赖喇嘛之口。即使在普通人看来，关于幸福的定义也大不一样。去年，中国头号电视台CCTV就幸福问题随机采访过街头行人。如其所料，根据社会地位的不同，普通中国公民对幸福的看法也各持己见。在我看来，幸福是我内心的喜乐和爱意，是我不为生存环境和个人生活而担忧的那个时刻。
Safe living environment and safe food
mean&&a lot to me in term of
happiness.&&Howard County, the
place I am living now, has been listed as one of the most suitable
places in USA &for living. The beautiful
&lake, birds, ducks, boats and pleasant residents
in the local park always cheer me up whenever I have a walk
there.&&No gun shooting and no
air pollution make me worry nothing about my living environment in
county.&&Meanwhile,&
&the safe and health food in the local store is my
daily blessing, compared to the daily food in my home country where
fake and poisonous food is not rare.
安全的生存环境和食物，对我的幸福感至关重要。我现在居住的Howard County,
多次被列为美国最适合居住的地方之一。美丽的湖畔，飞鸟，野鸭，小船，还有快乐的居民们，总会让在公园散步的我感到非常喜悦。这里没有枪击和环境污染，在这个安全的郊区里，我不会为生存环境担忧。同时，当地商店里安全而健康的食物，则是我每日生活的祝福。在我的祖国，伪劣食品并不罕见。
I am also feeling very happy about my personal
life.&&After over twenty years of
marriage with my spouse, I am very pleased with my family life.
Although I am a full time mom for many years, I am not doing chores
alone by myself. &My spouse is always willing to
help me to take care of kids and gardening, etc. Being an
oncologist, my spouse also provides the family with a decent
income, which allows us to travel worldwide. Disneyland, Florida
beach, Paris museum, and trip to China every other
year,&&give me the feeling of
happiness.
对我的个人生活，我也感到知足长乐。经历二十多年的婚姻之后，我对家庭生活很满意。尽管我多年做全职妈妈，但我并不是一人独揽家务。我的丈夫总是自愿帮我照顾孩子，也承担像割草这样的家务。身为肿瘤医生，他的收入可以允许我们一家四处旅游。迪斯尼乐园，巴黎博物馆，每隔一年回国一次，给了我幸福快乐的感觉。
In addition to the daily life, routine church life is the other
source of my inner peace and joy. Every Sunday, I go to church with
my children to worship my belief. The beautiful music, holy songs
and nice people in the church fill my heart with a joy from the
above world. God’s words are the best food for my spirit growth.
Sometimes I serve as a volunteer to babysit the little kids in the
church. Baby’s smiling is like sunshine to brighten my heart very
much. I also enjoy being an editor for the church journal by
working with the other people together to spread church news and
God’s words to both believers and non-believers.
除了日常生活，常规的教会生活则是我内心安静和快乐的另外一个源泉。每周日，我会为了信仰和我的孩子们去教会。教会中美妙的音乐，圣歌和友善的人们，让我的心中充满了来自属天的快乐。上帝的话语是我精神成长的最佳食物。有时候，我在教会中会做志愿者照顾婴儿，孩子们的笑脸像阳光一样照亮我心。我也很喜欢和教会的同工一起办杂志，将神的话语传给所有人。
In the movie “Happiness” we watched in the class, people from
around the world talk about happiness in their own language and
culture.&&In my view, everyone
has his/her own sense of happiness regardless of their income, race
and social rank.&&Happiness
cannot be copied from each other and it is a personal feeling in
our heart.&&Based on my own life
experience, I reason
that&&happiness not only comes
from material satisfaction but also depends on spiritual joy.
我们在课堂上观看的电影“幸福”中，世界各地的人民都用他们自己的语言和文化谈论幸福。我觉得，无论收入，种族，社会地位如何，每个人都有自己的幸福观。幸福不可复制，它是我们心中个人的感觉。根据我自己的生活经历，我认为幸福不仅来自于物质满足，幸福也依赖于精神的快乐。
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上面是我写的英文作文，作文内容是有字数限制的。今天老师给了我95分。哇，高兴，我从来没得过95分的作文。我把它翻译出来，和大家共享我的幸福观。未经允许，谢绝平媒用稿。
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