2021九年级英语上册 Unit 4 Stories and poems文化背景资料（新版）冀教版.doc

1、Be happy“The days that make us happy make us wise.”John MansfieldWhen I first read this line by the English Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Mansfield mean? Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning. The wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception.Active happinessnot mere satis

2、faction or contentmentoften comes suddenly, like an April shower or the unfolding of a bud. Then you discover what kind of wisdom has accompanied it. The grass is greener, bird songs are sweeter, and the shortcomings of your friends are more understandable and more forgivable.Happiness is like a pai

3、r of eyeglasses correcting your spiritual vision.Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.The long vista is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you-people, thoughts, emotions, pressures-are now fitted into the large scene.Everything assumes a fairer proportion. And here is the beginning of wisdom.