幸福如何衡量可能無法給出一個準確答案,但是追求幸福是每個人的權利,正如美國1776年頒布的《獨立宣言》(The Declaration of
Independence)中最的一句話:
”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are createdequal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The influence of climate on crops are self-evident. 氣候對農作物的影響是不證自明的。
②也可以放在句首,用于強調句型,如:
It is self-evident that we will never have enough resources to meet the
demand.
不言而喻,我們將永遠不會有足夠的資源來滿足需求。
endow v. 賦予;捐贈;天生具有(常與with連用)
?、貼ature has endowed her with great musical ability.
上天賦予她極大的音樂才能。
?、赟he is endowed with great musical ability.
她具有很高的音樂天賦。
Do a country's inhabitants get happier asit gets richer?
一個國家變得更加富有了,他的國民就會越幸福嗎?
Most governments seem to believe so, giventheir relentless focus on
increasing GDP year by year.
大多數(shù)政府似乎都是這么認為的,因為他們一直致力于逐年提高GDP。
relentlessadj. 不減弱的,持續(xù)的,殘酷的,不留情的,
The traffic noise is relentless.
交通車輛的噪音一刻也不停止。
Reliable, long-term evidence linking wealthand happiness is, however,
lacking.And measuring well-being isitself fraught with problems,since it often
relies on surveys that askparticipants to assess their own levels of happiness
subjectively.
Daniel Sgroi of the University of Warwickand Eugenio Proto of the
University of Glasgow, both in Britain, think, nevertheless, thatthey have an
answer.
但英國華威大學的丹尼爾·斯格羅以及格拉斯哥大學的尤金尼奧·普羅托認為他們找到了答案。
By examining millions of books andnewspaper articles published since 1820
in four countries (America, Britain,Germany and Italy),they have developed what
they hope is an objective measureof each place's historical happiness.
She examines the interplay between changing gender divisions and urban
change.
她研究性別差異的變化和城市變化之間的相互影響。
And their answer is that wealth does bring happiness,but some other things
bring more of it.
他們的答案是,財富確實能帶來幸福,但其他一些東西能帶來更多的幸福。
以上表達在近期社況類話題中也可使用哦!例如:
Do you think that old people should be taken care of at home?
Do parents help children because they need their children to help them when
they are old?
Do you think parents should limit the time that their children spend on the
phone?
參考范例:
Do you think that old people should be taken care of at home?
Personally,I think it’s self-evident that the old should be taken care of
in places with people who have sufficient knowledge on medical care for them,
because the old people need to be examined from time to time in order to get
instant treatments if there’s something wrong, so if there is someone in the
family that can do this, then it’s safe to let the old be taken care of at home,
otherwise, it would be better to stay in specific sanitarium.