1. The poor are not less happy than many rich people. 许多富人并不比穷人快乐。
2. The Victorians, realizing that the greatest happiness accorded to man is that provided by a happy marriage. 维多利亚时代的人领会到, 赋于人生最大的幸福乃来自幸福的婚姻.
3. This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the ´happy few´ during the past centuries. 这说明,经过了多么漫长的时间之后,我们才认识到,有必要确保我们的孩子享有多少个世纪以来由1少数幸运者´所积累起来的知识。
4. To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. 一个人要想真正感到幸福和平安,至少应有两三种爱好,而且都比较实际。
5. They had only a small flat to live in, but they were happy. 他们只有一套小小的住房,但是生活很幸福。
6. The explorers found that the local missionary was always happy to welcome them for a night, for life in the jungle was tedious for many of these men. 探险家们发现,殖民地传教士都高兴接待他们过夜,因为对这些人来说,丛林中的生活是枯燥的。
7. This realization now entered my life like a flow of water dividing previously dry and solid ground, creating two banks, one of which was my past — so familiar and predictable that even my unhappiness then made me happy now just to think of it; 这种认识就象一股水流一样流进我的生活,把先前干涸坚实的土地一分为二,造成了河流的两岸。河岸的一边是我的过去——这对我来说是如此熟悉, 如此地可以预料,以至于我只要想到它,原先使我感到不快的东西也会使现在的我变得开心起来。
8. The audience always believe what they see over what they hear. They think, "He's telling me he's happy, but he's not. He's not being honest." 听众总是相信自己亲眼所见胜过耳闻。他们会想,"他告诉我他很高兴,可他并不是这样。他现在并没有说实话。"
9. These books use simple, hand-drawn pictures of "sad faces" and "happy faces" to illustrate ways people can prevent AIDS. 这些书籍采用简单的、手工绘制的“忧伤的脸”和“幸福的脸”等图画,说明防止感染艾滋病的方法。