托福写作范文：工作决定幸福感

 　　托福独立写作题目：

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Your job has more effect on your happiness than your social life does.

　　观点：同意工作对人的幸福感影响更大。

　　1) 人是否幸福和经济状况有关。而对大多数人来说，工作是经济来源。一般来说，当人没有经济上的忧虑的时候，人就会比较幸福。

　　2) 幸福还意味着强烈的成就感。一般来说，工作比社交生活更容易带来成就感或者挫败感。当一个人工作做得好，得到同事和老板认可的时候，他会觉得很幸福，因为觉得自己有用。而当一个人工作做不好，被批评的时候，就会不开心。

　　3) 工作占据一个人大部分的时间和精力。当你享受工作的时候，你的大部分时间都会很开心。而当你做一份自己讨厌的工作时，你一天都不会开心。

　　托福写作范文：

　　I tend to believe that one’s job exerts influence on one’s happiness. In other words, whether you enjoy your job or not determines your happiness. Three reasons can be used to justify¹ my opinion.

　　To begin with, a person’s happiness has something to do with 和…有关his/her financial conditions and generally speaking, job decides a person’s economic conditions. So if you have a well-paid job, you are less likely to suffer from financial cares财政忧虑. Although we are told that happiness has nothing to do with money, I still believe that without basic necessities, it is next to impossible for people to be really happy. Take many Chinese youngsters for example. A majority of young people aging from 18-30 are unhappy nowadays. The reason is simple: housing prices in nearly every city, large or small, are escalating² 增长: ten years ago, 100,000dollars could buy an apartment in Beijing. Now to buy the same apartment, you have to pay 500,000dollars. To rent a well-equipped apartment, you have to pay at least 500dollars, while the average salary in Beijing is 1000dollars. Rising housing prices, coupled with和...一起 stagnant³停滞的 wages plague困扰youngsters and their parents. If those youngsters had a job which can bring them at least 50,000dollars a year, they would have the opportunity to rent or buy a decent apartment, therefore living a better life.

　　Second, happiness has a strong correlation⁴ with a sense of fulfillment 满足感. It is our job that produces most of our achievement. When we finish our work flawlessly 完美无瑕地, we are more likely to be happy, for the perfect work means a strong capacity that not everybody has. But messing up 把…弄糟a work is definitely frustrating⁵. It is true that social life can also have some impact on our happiness, but this effect is minimal⁶ and will not last for a long time. The reason is obvious: in our society, people evaluate a person by his/her ability to perform job-related tasks. A doctor will be excited with a complete recovery of his/her patient; a teacher feels perfect when his/her students achieve academic success. Nothing brings a person genuine 真正的 happiness than his/her job does.

　　Last but not least, it is your job that consumes much of your time. In this highly competitive modern society 高度竞争的现代社会, to maintain our competitive edge 保持竞争优势, we have to do our best. Spending 8 hours on one’s work is normal and most of us actually spend at least 10 hours on work on a daily basis 每天. If you love your work, then you are happy to get up early and enjoy the whole day, but if you hate your job, then the process would be a nightmare and you have to suffer. I consider myself happy because I choose my job and I enjoy the whole process. Even if I have to work overtime⁷, I do not complain. But my sister is not so lucky. Despite the fact that her social life makes her happy, the happiness is transient 短暂的. When she goes back to work, she has to suffer.

　　From the discussion above, I firmly 坚定地 believe that a person’s happiness links with his/her job. A happy person is a person with a well-paid job, and at the same time, he/she does the job with passion and enthusiasm 热情.

1 justify   

vt.证明…正当(或有理)，为…辩护

参考例句：

• He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
• Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗？

2 escalating   

v.（使）逐步升级( escalate的现在分词 )；（使）逐步扩大；（使）更高；（使）更大

参考例句：

• The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句

3 stagnant   

adj.不流动的，停滞的，不景气的

参考例句：

• Due to low investment,industrial output has remained stagnant.由于投资少，工业生产一直停滞不前。
• Their national economy is stagnant.他们的国家经济停滞不前。

4 correlation   

n.相互关系，相关，关连

参考例句：

• The second group of measurements had a high correlation with the first.第二组测量数据与第一组高度相关。
• A high correlation exists in America between education and economic position.教育和经济地位在美国有极密切的关系。

5 frustrating   

adj.产生挫折的，使人沮丧的，令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间，真令人懊恼。
• It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 minimal   

adj.尽可能少的，最小的

参考例句：

• They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
• I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家，所以我的花费很小。

7 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。