Elegant English-6罗素＜征服幸福＞(上).ppt

Elegant English(1) Elegant English优雅英语之六 Crazy English Makes You Crazy; Elegant English Makes You Elegant. --- Shi Zhikang 罗素《征服幸福》赏析（上） The Conquest of Happiness I. Causes of Unhappiness II. Causes of Happiness 罗素《征服幸福》赏析（上） Chapter I What Desires Are Politically Important? The boa constrictor, when he has had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal. Human beings, for the most part, are not like this. From Chapter I ‘Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but they are not, at least in a great majority of cases.’ He maintains that people tend to have a self-serving bias towards the external world, at least in a great majority of cases. 罗素《征服幸福》赏析（上） Chapter I To prevent the perpetuation of poverty is necessary if the benefits of machine production are to accrue in any degree to those most in need of them; but what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable? 罗素《征服幸福》赏析（上） Chapter I 错误的世界观 (mistaken views of the world) 错误的伦理观 (mistaken ethics) 错误的生活习惯 (mistaken habits of life) 罗素《征服幸福》赏析（上） Chapter I natural zest and appetite for possible things empty your mind of your own ego make yourself receptive to the moods of sb. a diminishing preoccupation with myself 罗素《征服幸福》赏析（上） Chapter I 精美短语 a vital need of our civilization 我们文明时代极重要的一个需要 the long-spread-out boredom ahead of me 我前面那漫长的枯燥生活 for the magnificence of one’s own ego 为了自我的伟大 罗素《征服幸福》赏析（上） Chapter II - Byronic Unhappiness It is common in our day, as it has been in many other periods of the world’s history, to suppose that those among us who are wise have seen through all the enthusiasms of earlier times and have become aware that there is nothing left to live for. 罗素《征服幸福》赏析（上） Chapter II - Byronic Unhappiness The wise man will be as happy as ci