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题目：
请以 The Road to Happiness 为题，写一篇作文。
范文：
The Road to Happiness
If you look around at the men and women whomyou can call happy, you will
see that they all havecertain things in common. The most important ofthese
things is an activity which at most graduallybuilds up something that you are
glad to see cominginto existence. Women who take an instinctivepleasure in their
children can get this kind ofsatisfaction out of bringing up a family.
Artists and authors and men of science gethappiness in this way if their
own work seems goodto them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of
pleasure. Many men who spendtheir working life in the city devote their weekends
to voluntary and unremunerated toil in theirgardens, and when the spring comes,
they experience all the joys of having created beauty.
The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion,been treated too
solemnly. It had beenthought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life
or a religion. Perhaps those whohave been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may
need a better theory to help them torecovery, just as you may need a tonic when
you have been ill. But when things are normal aman should be healthy without a
tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things thatreally matter. If
a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds
pleasurein the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy
whatever hisphilosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful,
his children’s noiseunendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime
he longs for night, and at nightsighs for the light of day, then what he needs
is not a new philosophy but a new regimen —adifferent diet, or more exercise, or
what not. Man is an animal, and his happiness depends onhis physiology more than
he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot makemyself
disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced,would increase their
happinessmore by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of
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发表于 2016-12-4 13:32:32