英语演讲稿：The Road to Happiness

　　it is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. this is only true if you pursue it unwisely. gamblers at monte carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed. so it is with happiness. if you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hangover. epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. his method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. for most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. but i think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness. if you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common.

　　the most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. but there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, 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 been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recover, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. but when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. it is the simple things that really matter. if a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. if, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his childrens noise unendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen--a different diet, or more exercise, or what not. man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. this is a humble conclusion, but i cannot make myself disbelieve it. unhappy businessmen, i am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

话题英语作文怎么写

定句型，连词成句
　　
　　这个环节是成文的关键，一定要注意做到：
　　
　　（1）选用比较有把握的词汇，用恰当的句型写出确切反映内容要求的句子。在熟悉的基础上，鼓励多用高级词汇和结构复杂的复杂句。如表达为了时，可用inorder to do 或 so as todo.也可用sothat引导目的状语从句。
　　
　　（2）写出的句子要达意，完整，语法正确，合乎习惯，特别是句式、谓语动词形式要有根有据。
　　
　　（3）表达限定的内容有困难时，就要想到allroadsleadtorome.这句话，用变通的方法，以达到曲径通幽。如要译他表哥外强中干这样一句话，表达起来似乎很难，但我们完全可以通过学过的东西将这句话明白贴切地表达出来：hiscousinlooks strong but in fact,he is rather weak.
　　
　　（4）尽量避免使用汉语式的英语。例如要表达她睡得很迟，不可写成：shesleptvery late.应该写成：shewent tobed verylate.因为sleeplate表示睡懒觉。又如要表达他一点都不担心他的英语，不可写成：heisnot a little worried abouthisenglish.实际上意思完全相反，表达成他非常担心他的英语了。应该是：heisnot a bit worried about his english. 或：he isnotworried about his english at all.
　　
　　连词成句，添减相宜
　　
　　单句写出后，根据短文的内容要求，确定先写什么，后写什么，按照表述内容的情节发展和实际需要，重新排列组合已写成的句子，划分必要的段落，一般分成三段。
　　
　　即：文章的开头（introduction）、文章的主体(mainbody)和文章的结尾(conclusion).这样写成文章的初稿。在连词成句的过程中，还要注意以下几点：
　　
　　（1）句子或段落间的连接不仅仅是个语言问题，也是个逻辑思维方面的问题，这两者是不能分开的。能注意到这一点，你的文章就能达到条理清楚、层次分明的境界。
　　
　　（2）为了使句子或段落语义连贯，表达合理准确，可以适当加入一些连接词语。如表达转折可用but,however,otherwise等，表达递进可用and,also,besides,whatsmore等，表达因果so,therefore,asaresult等，表达对比可用atthesametime,meanwhile，while等，表达让步可用though,although,evenif等。有时还需要加入一些必要的过渡句子以达到承上启下的效果。
　　
　　（3）仔细推敲在文章的哪些地方可用复杂句。切忌生搬硬套，给人一种为了用复杂句而用复杂句的感觉。要用得自然、得体。要顺应行文的需要，与整个文章浑然一体。
　　
　　尽量使用我们熟悉的宾语从句、状语从句和定语从句。
　　
　　检查，修改，定稿，誊写
　　
　　检查修改是进一步减少疏漏提高质量的最后程序，这时要对照题目要求，认真检查以下几点：
　　
　　（1）内容有无遗漏或误词，最好一一对应检查。
　　
　　（2）体裁格式对不对。
　　
　　（3）句子是否有语法结构错误，特别要检查句子中的冠词、代词、名词复数、动词的时态、语态、主谓一致等方面是否有错误。
　　
　　（4）句子是否合乎英语表达习惯，是否达意。