想要快乐就要学会感恩 中英文演讲稿

想要快乐吗？那就学会感恩吧！

大卫·斯坦尔德-拉斯特

There is something you know about me,something very personal, and there is something I know about every one of youand that's very central to your concerns. There is something that we know about everyone we meet anywhere in the world, on the street, that is the very main spring of whatever they do and whatever they put up with. And that is that all of us want to be happy. In this, we are all together. How we imagine ourhappiness, that differs from one another, but it's already a lot that we haveall in common, that we want to be happy.

有些事情关于我的，是些非常私人的问题。还有一些是你们最关心的问题，有件事我们都能懂与我们遇到的每个人有关：无论是在世上的某一处还是在大街上，那是他们非常主要的动力，无论他们在做什么还是在忍受什么，那就是我们所有的都想要快乐。在这件事上，我们站在同一阵线我们如何想象我们的快乐每个人都不相同但是我们已经有够多的共同处了就是我们想要快乐。

Now my topic is gratefulness. What is theconnection between happiness and gratefulness? Many people would say, well,that's very easy. When you are happy, you are grateful. But think again. Is itreally the happy people that are grateful? We all know quite a number of people who have everything that it would take to be happy, and they are not happy,because they want something else or they want more of the same.

我的话题关于感恩快乐和感恩之间有着怎样的联系？很多人会说，恩，这很容易当你快乐的时候，你就心存感激。但是，请再想一想快乐的人是心存感激的，真的是这样吗？我们知道，很多人他们拥有应该令他们感到快乐的东西，但他们并不快乐，因为他们想要其他的东西或者他们想要更多自己已有的东西。

And we all know people who have lots of misfortune, misfortune that we ourselves would not want to have, and they are deeply happy. They radiate happiness. You are surprised.Why? Because they are grateful. So it is not happiness that makes us grateful.It's gratefulness that makes us happy. If you think it's happiness that makesyou grateful, think again. It's gratefulness that makes you happy.

我们都知道有些遭遇很多不幸的人，这些不幸是我们完全不想沾染的，但他们却深深地感到快乐，他们散播欢乐。你会感到惊讶为什么？因为他们懂得感恩所以，并不是快乐让我们有感激之情，而是感恩之心让我们快乐。如果你认为是快乐让你心存感激再想一想。是感恩让你快乐。

Now, we can ask, what do we really mean bygratefulness? And how does it work? I appeal to your own experience. We allknow from experience how it goes. We experience something that's valuable tous. Something is given to us that's valuable to us. And it's really given.

现在，我们可以问，对我们来说，感激的意义是什么？它是怎么发生的？我希望你们能想到自己的经验。我们可以从自己的经验中了解到它是如何运作的。我们经历了一些对我们来说重要的事情，一些我们收到的，并且对我们而言很宝贵的东西。而且，是真正由别人给予的。

These two things have to come together. It has to be something valuable, andit's a real gift. You haven't bought it. You haven't earned it. You haven'ttraded it in. You haven't worked for it. It's just given to you. And when thesetwo things come together, something that's really valuable to me and I realizeit's freely given, then gratefulness spontaneously rises in my heart,