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Unit5 The Happy Door
第五课 开启快乐之门
Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circles of ripples.
快乐恰似扔进池子里的一颗石头，会激起不竭扩散的阵阵涟漪。
As Stevenson has said，being happy is a duty.
正如史蒂文森所言:“快乐是一种责任。”
There is no exact definition of the word happiness.
快乐那个字眼并没有切确的定义。
Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons.
快乐的人能够因种种理由而快乐。
The key is not wealth or physical well一being，since we find beggars, invalids and so called failures who are extremely happy.
其关键并不是财产或安康，因为我们能够发现有些乞丐、病弱的人与所谓的失败者他们却长短常快乐。
Being happy is a sort of unexpected dividend.
能快乐就是一种意想不到的益处。
But staying happy is an accomplishment, a triumph of soul and character.
而能连结快乐却是一项成就，也是心灵与道德上的成功。
It is not selfish to strive for it.
勤奋逃求快乐不算是无私。
It is, indeed, a duty to ourselves and others.
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事实上，逃求快乐不只是对本身也是对他人的一种责任。
Being unhappy is like an infectious disease;it causes people to shrink away from the sufferer.
郁闷不乐就像是一种流行症;得了那种病的人各人都避之如蛇蝎。
He soon finds himself alone, miserable and embittered.
他很快就会发现本身孤寂、痛苦、难受。
There is，however, a cure so simple as to seem，at first glance, ridiculous: If you don't feel happy, pretend to be!
不外，有一种很简单的治疗办法，乍看之下似乎很好笑:那就是假设你觉得不快乐，就假拆快乐吧!
It works.
那个办法很有效。
Before long you will find that instead of repelling people，you attract them.
你很快就会发现本身非但不会赶人走，反而还能吸惹人。
You discover how deeply rewarding it is to be the center of wider and wider circles of good will.
你会发现能成为广结善缘的中心人物，那是多么值得的事。
Then the make一believe becomes a reality.
于是本来的假快乐就酿成了实快乐。
You possess the secret of peace of mind，and can forget yourself in being of service to others.
你拥有心灵平静的法门，可以忘情于办事人群之中。
Being happy, once it is realized as a duty and established as a habit，opens doors into unimaginable gardens thronged with gratefuls friends.
一旦快乐被当做一种责任来履行并养成习惯时，它就会开启大门引领我们进进想像不到的花园，而里面都是满怀感恩的伴侣。