《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词3500》Unit 1 爱与幸福的思考

　　Unit 01
Thoughts on Love and Happiness
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful¹ for that gift. When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but oftentimes we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing² until it arrives.
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance³ that they'll love you back! Don't wait for love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grows in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush⁴ on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime⁵ to forget someone.
Don't go for looks; they cheat. Don't go for wealth; even that fades⁶ away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile. There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
The happiest people don't necessarily⁷ have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along. Happiness exists for those who cry, those who are hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't get on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Please send this message to those who mean something to you, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those who have touched your life in some way or another, to those who make you see the bright side of things when you are really down.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials⁸ to make you strong, enough sorrow⁹ to make you human, enough hope to make you happy.

1 grateful   

adj.感谢的，感激的，受欢迎的，表示谢意的

参考例句：

• If you will help us, we shall be very grateful.如果你愿意帮助我们，我们会很感激你。
• He closed his letter with expression of grateful thanks.他在那封信的结尾表达了自己的感激之情。

2 missing   

adj.遗失的，缺少的，失踪的

参考例句：

• Check the tools and see if anything is missing.检点一下工具，看有无丢失。
• All the others are here;he's the only one missing.别人都来了，就短他一个。

3 assurance   

n.把握，信心，保证，（人寿）保险

参考例句：

• The young teacher lacked assurance in front of his class.这位青年教师在学生面前缺少自信心。
• He has a life assurance.他投保了人寿保险。

4 crush   

v.压垮，压倒，压服，镇压；压碎，碾碎

参考例句：

• This machine is made to crush the rock into powder.这台机器是用来把石头压成碎末的。
• You can't crush so many people into the classroom.不能让这么多人挤进教室。

5 lifetime   

n.一生，终身，寿命，使用期限

参考例句：

• He wrote many books during his lifetime.他一生著作甚多。
• During his lifetime his work was never published.他的作品在他的有生之年从未出版过。

6 fades   

（使）褪去( fade的第三人称单数 )； 逐渐消逝； 逐渐消失； （运动员、运动队、演员等）走下坡路

参考例句：

• Daylight fades when the sun sets. 太阳西沉，天色逐渐暗淡。
• When you turn on a transistorized radio, the sound comes on immediately; when you turn off, it fades out gradually. 你打开晶体管收音机，立刻就有声音，当你关掉它时，声音渐渐消失。

7 necessarily   

adv.必要地，必需地；必定地，必然地

参考例句：

• More work does not necessarily call for more men.增加工作量不一定就要增添人员。
• A voter must necessarily be no younger than eighteen.选民必须在18岁以上。

8 trials   

审判( trial的名词复数 )； （对能力、质量、性能等的）试验； 测试； 比赛

参考例句：

• The loss of relatives is among the most frequent trials in life. 失去亲人是人生最常遇到的痛事之一。
• They are doing clinical trials on a new drug. 他们正在做一种新药物的临床试验。

9 sorrow   

n.悲哀；悲痛

参考例句：

• It helps to share your sorrow with someone else.向他人诉说你的痛苦对你是有益的。
• I think she did it more in sorrow than in anger.我觉得她这样做更多是出于悲哀而不是愤恨。