Unit-13-A-simple-truth-about-happiness

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Whats your opinion of the meaning of happiness?,Can money buy happiness,women less happy than men,Quit Complaining,Unit 13 A Simple truth about Happiness,Notes to the text:,1.owe,sth,.to,sb,.,owe,sb,.,sth,.,They owed their riches to oil;,有了石油才有他们的财富,She owes her good health to diet and exercise.,她的健康归功于饮食和锻炼,I owe them an apology.,我应向他们道个歉,Each of us owes it to our spouse,our children,our friends to be as happy as we can be.,为了我们的配偶，孩子，朋友，我们每一个人都有责任尽可能感觉幸福。,2.lie in The solution lies in research.,答案在研究中,.,3.work at,从事,致力于,钻研,We assume its a feeling that comes as a result of good things that just happen to us,things,over,which we have little or no,control,.,我们认为幸福是一种遇上好事的感觉，而这些好事是不受或几乎不受我们控制的。,4.control,be under ones control,have control over,sb./sth,.,The city is in/under the control of enemy forces.,该城现处於敌军的控制之下,pare,sb./sth,.with,sb./sth,.,The police compared the forged signature with the original.,警察将伪造的签名与原来的作比较。,Most of us compare ourselves with anyone we think is happiera relative,an acquaintance or,often,someone we barely know.,我们大多数人都爱拿自己与任何我们认为比我们幸福的人作比较,亲戚，熟人，或者我们几乎不认识的某个人。,6.strike,sb,.as adj.=impress,sb,.as adj.,；给,以印象,7.look up information,8.live up to,He lived up to their parents ideals.,遵从他们父母的理想去生活,9.cave in,10.shake the feeling that/of.=get rid of the feeling,11.confide,sth,.to,sb,.,She confided her troubles to a friend.,她向朋友倾吐了内心的烦恼,.,He confided(to me)that he had applied for another job.,他（向我）吐露说他已申请了另一份工作,.,12.,One effective way of damaging happiness is to look at something and,fixate on,even the smallest flaw.,破坏幸福的一个有效的方式是看某样东西时，连最小的缺陷都盯着不放。,fixate on,focus on,concentrate on,13.draw a conclusion,a moments reflection,14.gratitude-grateful-ungrateful,15.lead,sb,.to do,sth,.,lead to doing,16.Finally,the belief that something permanent transcends us and that our existence has some larger meaning can help us be happier.,最后，相信有某种永恒的东西超越我们，相信我们的存在具有某种更大的意义，这可以使我们更幸福。,17.,choose to do,sth,.,Translation:,1.The opposite is true.,2.A moments reflection should/would make this clear/obvious.,3.I think you owe me an explanation.,4.It took them 2 hours to bring/get the fire under control.,5.Most couples would agree that for a marriage to succeed,both parties have to work at it.,6.There is a high correlation between smoking and lung cancer.,7.This firm concentrates on the European market.,8.Did you draw/come to/reach any conclusion at the meeting this morning?,9.Doesnt it strike you as rather odd/strange that he never talks about his family?,10.The more he insisted he was innocent,the less they seemed to believed him.,The End,