讀點好英文:In Life, We are Happiest When……生活中我們最幸福時……

In Life, We are Happiest When……生活中我們最幸福時……

·Stuart·

A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration.All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations.All had wonderful time.

The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal，“I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage，”she offered，“Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together.”

The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other.They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.

The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.

“I'll start，”offered the wife. She took out her list.It had many items on it.Enough to fill 3 pages, in fact.As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband's eyes.

“What's wrong?”she asked.“Nothing，”the husband replied，“keep reading your list.”

The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.

“Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists.”She said happily.

Quietly the husband stated，“I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are.I don't want you to change anything for me.You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you.”

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them.We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise.Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?

斯圖亞特

一個男人與他的女朋友舉行了一場盛大的結(jié)婚典禮。

所有的親朋好友都來參加，分享他們的喜悅，對他們表示祝賀，大家過得很愉快。

身著雪白婚紗的新娘楚楚動人，穿著黑色禮服的新郎英俊瀟灑。大家都看得出來，他們彼此相愛著。

數(shù)月后，妻子提議道：“我剛在雜志上看到一篇文章，講的是如何增進夫妻感情。”她說，“我們各自在紙上羅列出對方的小缺點，然后一起找出解決的辦法，這樣會使我們的婚姻生活更融洽。”

丈夫很贊成。于是，他們各自在房間里想對方的缺點。那天余下的時間，他們都在想這個問題，同時也把所想的寫了下來。

第二天早上，吃早餐時，他們決定談?wù)劚舜说娜秉c。

“我先來吧。”妻子說。她拿出單子，上面都寫滿了，足有三頁紙。開始念丈夫的小毛病時，她注意到他的眼角濕潤了。

“怎么了？”她問道。“沒什么，”丈夫答道，“繼續(xù)念啊。”

妻子接著念，念完這三張紙后，她把單子整齊地放在桌上，兩手交叉放在上面。

“現(xiàn)在，該你了。你念完后，我們就來談?wù)勥@些缺點吧。”妻子開心地說道。

丈夫平靜地說：“我什么也沒寫。我覺得你這樣已經(jīng)很完美了，你很可愛，很迷人，我不想讓你為我改變什么。”

丈夫的誠實、深沉的愛與包容，深深地觸動了她，她轉(zhuǎn)過頭去哭了起來。

生活中，很多時候，我們都會感到失望、沮喪和厭煩，但我們不必刻意去尋找這些負面的事情。我們擁有一個奇妙的世界，充滿美、光明和希望。當我們環(huán)顧四周，就可以發(fā)覺這些美好，那又何必把光陰耗費在找尋不快、失落和煩惱上呢？

核心單詞

ceremony['serim?ni]n.儀式，典禮；禮儀，禮節(jié)

partake[pa：'teik]v.分擔；共享

gorgeous['g?：d??s]adj.華麗的；燦爛的

tuxedo[t?k'si：d?u]n.男士無尾半正式晚禮服

annoyance[?'n?i?ns]n.煩惱；可厭之事

wondrous['w?ndr?s]adj.令人驚奇的，非常的

實用句型

WecantaIkabouthowwecanfixthemtogetherandmake ourIiveshappier together.

我們一起找出解決的辦法，這樣會使我們的婚姻生活更融洽。①這里是how引導的賓語從句。

②talk about談?wù)摚劦?，類似的表達還有talk with與……交談；talk over商討，討論等固定搭配。

翻譯練習

1.事實上，你這么做是對的。（in fact）

2.他一時想不出一個合適的回答。（come up with）

3.世界充滿愛。（be full of）