Unit 2 What is happiness to you?
朋友和家人都陪伴着我，鼓励我，开导我。
guidance 指导，指引
e.g. i need guidance on this matter.
这件事我需要有人指导。
i need some guidance with my studies.
我需要有人指导我的学习。
under his guidance, i managed to solve the problem.
在他的指导下我设法解决了那个问题。
i learned how to ski under his guidance.
我在他的指导下学习滑雪。
3. we will have robots and computers to assist us with the things that are boring.
机器人和电脑会帮我们做那些烦人的事。
assist 帮助，协助
assist sb with sth 帮助某人做某事
e.g. two students assisted me with the experiment. 两个学生帮我 做这个实验。
she employed a woman to assist her with the housework. 她雇了一位妇女帮她做家务。
assist sb in doing sth 帮助某人做某事
e.g. he assisted my father in cleaning the car.
他帮我的父亲清洗汽车。
she asked us to assist her in carrying out the plan. 她请我们帮她实施那项计划。
assist sb to do sth 帮助某人做某事
e.g. he assisted us to establish a new company. 他帮助我们成立了一家新公司。
a good dictionary will assist you to understand english. 好词典会帮助你理解英文。
assist in (doing) sth 帮助做某事
e.g. my father assisted in building our new house.
我父亲帮助我们盖新房子。
he thought he had a duty to assist in this movement. 他认为他有责任帮助这次活动。
ⅱ. 补充材料
what is happiness?
happiness and unhappiness are opposite sides of a judgment about your situation. if you judge your situation as bad for you, that’s unhappiness. if you judge a situation as good for you, that’s happiness.
the experience of happiness is one of those general terms we use to say, “i feel good emotionally.” people use different terms to describe what feels good for them. for someone it might be excitement, passion, exhilaration, fulfillment, freedom, feeling fully alive with inspiration and joy. for another it might be more peaceful, content, capable, hopeful, satisfied, and comfortable feeling. whatever you call it, it just feels darn good.
our natural state of being is to be happy. when you remove all the uncomfortable emotions we humans can experience (and they are numerous), you’re left with happiness. so it’s easiest to define happiness by what it is not.
happiness is what you feel when you’re not feeling....
self doubt, depressed, hateful, fearful, worried, unsatisfied, bored, grief, shame, guilt, discontent, anxious, annoyed, angry, irritated, stressed, frustrated, upset, down, sad, envious, or, jealous.
