时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:王强英语美文


英语课

Be Happy!


"The days that make us happy make us wise."_ John Masefield


When I first read this line by England's Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much. I had always assumed that the opposite was true. But his sober assurance was arresting. I could not forget it.


Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here was a profound observation. The wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception, not fogged by anxiety nor dimmed by despair and boredom 1, and without the blind spots caused by fear.


Active happiness not mere 2 satisfaction or contentment_ Often comes suddenly, like an April shower or the unfolding of a bud. Then you discover what kind of wisdom has accompanied it. The grass is greener, bird songs are sweeter, the shortcomings of your friends are more understandable and more forgivable. Happiness is like a pair of eyeglasses correcting your spiritual vision.


Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes 3, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles 4.


The long vista 5 is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you _people, thoughts, emotions, pressures_ are now fitted into the larger scene. Every thing assumes a fairer proportion. And here is the beginning of wisdom.


快乐吧!


作者介绍:劳埃德 莫里斯(1613-1680),英国著名作家,作品富于机智幽默。著有《格言集》等。本文以演绎的手法论述快乐对人的影响。作者先籍梅斯菲尔德的诗引出“快乐和智慧”的关系,接着以人在快乐时的种种心理反应,点出快乐无处不在。最后再给予肯定的结论:快乐是智慧的开端。“快乐的日子,使我们聪明。”--约翰.梅斯菲尔德


第一次读到英国桂冠诗人梅斯菲尔德这行诗的时候,我非常惊讶,它真正的寓意是什么呢?不仔细考虑的话,我一直认为这句诗倒过来才对。不过他的冷静与自信却俘获了我,所以我一直无法忘记这句诗。


终于,我好象领会了他的意思,意识到其中蕴含着深刻的观察思考。快乐带来的智慧存在与清晰的心灵感觉中,不因忧虑担心而困惑,不因绝望、厌烦而迟钝,不因惶恐而出现盲点。


跳动的快乐——不仅是满足或惬意——会突然到来,就像四月的春雨或是花蕾的绽放。然后你发觉智慧已随快乐而来。草儿更绿,鸟儿的歌声更加美妙,朋友的缺点也变得更加可以理解、原谅。快乐就像一副眼镜,可以修正你精神的视力。


快乐的视野并不受你周围事物的局限。只不过当你不快乐的时候,思想便转向你感情上的苦恼,眼界也就被心灵之墙隔断了。而当你快乐的时候,这道墙便崩塌了。


你的眼界更宽了。脚下的大地,身旁的世界——人们、思想、情感、压力——现在都溶进了一个更加宏伟的情境中,每件事都恰如其分。这就是智慧的开端。



1 boredom
n.厌烦,厌倦,乏味,无聊
  • Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom.失业会让你无聊得发疯。
  • A walkman can relieve the boredom of running.跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了。
2 mere
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
3 woes
困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉
  • Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
  • She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。
4 crumbles
酥皮水果甜点( crumble的名词复数 )
  • This cake crumbles too easily. 这种蛋糕太容易碎了。
  • This bread crumbles ever so easily. 这种面包非常容易碎。
5 vista
n.远景,深景,展望,回想
  • From my bedroom window I looked out on a crowded vista of hills and rooftops.我从卧室窗口望去,远处尽是连绵的山峦和屋顶。
  • These uprisings come from desperation and a vista of a future without hope.发生这些暴动是因为人们被逼上了绝路,未来看不到一点儿希望。
学英语单词
a baiuca
Bacillus septicus
bas respnse
benzimidazolamine
bicorne
binoculared
burning the midnight oil
Bursa intratendinea olecrani
cellwise
cerenam
CFC flip-flop circuit
chipped meat
clinical centrifuge
clip frame
common-cause failure (ccf)
contour listihg
contra-guide
control and interface
copper interconnect
counter ceiling
countersupply
crataegus wattiana hermsl. et lacc
crop circle
Digifan
direct-current potential
divergent spread
Eleusis
energy pyramid
filter basket
flag switch
fly-fish
fourwheel
friendling
gap welding
gayooms
glory in something
gopherus agassizi
granny square
graphic input language
Hacine
hangs-on
hcp structure
high temperature modification
hollimon
inference network
information notes
intermediate slide
Kauhajoki
kontakaria
madda
Menninger
Morrison County
Musi, Sungai
neaptide
non-pressure regulating roller leveler
nondegenerate assumption
Nordenskjöld Basin
nudi-
overwhip
Oxalis corniculata L.
pelvic arches
piecewise linear topology
Pleasant View
posttonsillectomy
preferred libility
principal axis factor
problem - based learning
prohumic substance
pterocarpus echinatus pers.
puglianite
quick-eyed
reginae
reiglement
rift in clouds
saccharising
Salitre, R.
sea-pie
Sheshbazzar
slab rubber
sleeper failure
spectrohe-liograph
Spumavirinae
stage of development
statement of daily cash
superorder
tamped concrete
tapered loading
target warker
testis cerebri
time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay
toxaspire
transaction auditing
Trochograptus
tube nipple
ubiquitinating
underwater dynamics
unloading amplifier
volcanic mountains
Waldsleinia
Wando-gun
West's lacuna skull