英语美文:懂得感激生活的人，才能快乐

 　　Someone asked "What's your "secret" to a happy life? What makes your days blissful?" on a forum¹.

　　有人在论坛上问：“你保持生活愉悦的秘诀是什么？是什么让你的生活美滋滋的？“

　　I'm not annoying.Think I've got a higher level of life satisfaction than a lot of my friends. There are four things that I can put my finger on that I think I do a little differently than them (and a lot of people). Hope they bring you some joy!

　　我无意哗众取宠，但我真心觉得自己的生活满意度比周围许多朋友都要高。我确定在4件事情上的做法与他们不同，并希望这些不同的做法也能给你带来快乐！

　　1. I'm constantly and conscientiously² focusing on being grateful for all the amazing and miraculous³ shit in my life.

　　我总是对生活中发生的一切美好神奇的事情心存感激。

　　My wife is a good human, I work with good people, I'm not sick right now, etc... Looking at the basic, mundane⁴ stuff around me and appreciating it really helps me feel like I'm a lucky person.

　　我的太太很善良，我的同事都是好人，目前我也没有疾病缠身。看我周围这些稀松平常的事情，让我内心感动、觉得自己非常幸运。

　　2. I'm always trying to find compassion⁵ for people - *especially* those that are pissing me off in one way or another.

　　我会找到他人身上的可怜之处，尤其是那些惹怒我的人。

　　If you don't have compassion, you stop trying to find the truth behind people's actions and usually just chalk up their negative ones to that person being an asshole.

　　如果你没有恻隐之心，你就会停止深究人们行为背后的含义，只记下可恶之人的讨厌之处。

　　3. Tell people you love them, be generous with your friends.

　　时常表达爱意，慷慨待友人。

　　I don't think people realize until they've lost something or made a truly irrevocable mistake just how much loss hurts, and how much they'd give to just express their love for whatever it was that is now gone.

　　我觉得人们往往只有在失去了某样东西之后，或犯了不可挽回的错误之后，才会体会到失去的痛苦，才会意识到自己多么想对那些已逝之人表达爱意。

　　4. Always ask yourself if you could be wrong, and really be open to it.

　　绝不要忘了问自己有没有做错，并用开放的心胸接纳真相。

　　Give yourself a break, and don't hold yourself to unreasonable⁶ standards on this count: as long as you're looking around your world with an open heart and an open mind, the pure intentions behind anything you're wrong about will shine through.

　　给自己一个喘息，不要以不近人情的标准来苛责自己，尽可能地多看看这个世界，敞开心扉，解放思想，不去想自己对错与否，以初心照亮身心。

1 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

2 conscientiously   

adv.凭良心地；认真地，负责尽职地；老老实实

参考例句：

• He kept silent,eating just as conscientiously but as though everything tasted alike. 他一声不吭，闷头吃着，仿佛桌上的饭菜都一个味儿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She discharged all the responsibilities of a minister conscientiously. 她自觉地履行部长的一切职责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 miraculous   

adj.像奇迹一样的，不可思议的

参考例句：

• The wounded man made a miraculous recovery.伤员奇迹般地痊愈了。
• They won a miraculous victory over much stronger enemy.他们战胜了远比自己强大的敌人，赢得了非凡的胜利。

4 mundane   

adj.平凡的；尘世的；宇宙的

参考例句：

• I hope I can get an interesting job and not something mundane.我希望我可以得到的是一份有趣的工作，而不是一份平凡无奇的。
• I find it humorous sometimes that even the most mundane occurrences can have an impact on our awareness.我发现生活有时挺诙谐的，即使是最平凡的事情也能影响我们的感知。

5 compassion   

n.同情，怜悯

参考例句：

• He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
• Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。

6 unreasonable   

adj.不讲道理的，不合情理的，过度的

参考例句：

• I know that they made the most unreasonable demands on you.我知道他们对你提出了最不合理的要求。
• They spend an unreasonable amount of money on clothes.他们花在衣服上的钱太多了。