常考时文朗诵01
时间：2018-12-07 作者：英语课 分类：访谈录2015年
passage 1
1. what do animals live on?
2. what are human needs based on?
3. what would a business man sacrifice to grow rich, health and...?
4. why do many rich ladies spend boring hours learning to talk about
fashionable new books?
to be thought
The road to happiness
There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of
happiness. For example health and sufficient income and who nevertheless are
profoundly unhappy. In such cases, it would seem as if the fault must lie
with the wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we may say that any
theory as to how to live is wrong, we imagine ourselves more different from
the animals than we are. Animals live on imports and they are happy as long
as the external conditions are favorable. If you have a cat, it will enjoy
life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for the occasional light on
the ties. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat but they still
have their basis on instinct. In civilized 1 societies, especially in English
speaking societies, this is too apt to be forgotten. People proposed to
themselves someone paramount 2 objective and restrain all imposes that do not
minister to them. A business man maybe so anxious to grow rich that to this
end he sacrifice his health and private affections when at last he becomes
rich, no pleasure remains 3 to him except hearing other people by exaltations
to immitate his noble example. Many rich ladies although nature has not
indult them with any spontaneous pleasure in the literature or art, decide
to be thought cultured and spend boring hours learning the right thing to
say about fashionable new books lead a reason to give delight not to afford
opportunities for dirtiest sno bism.
sufficient
profoundly
imports
paramount
sacrifice
exaltation
indult
spontaneous
snobism
You can't work around the clock, you can't injure too much pressure.
I know, but I just seem unable to simply done.
- Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
- rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为
- My paramount object is to save the Union and destroy slavery.我的最高目标是拯救美国，摧毁奴隶制度。
- Nitrogen is of paramount importance to life on earth.氮对地球上的生命至关重要。