问答题
Passage 1

If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.
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【答案解析】只要观察一下周围那些你可称之为幸福的人,你就会看出他们都有某些共同之处。其中最重要的一点就是:他们能从所参加的活动本身得到乐趣,而且通过参加活动,他们的愿望能得以实现。生性喜爱孩子的妇女,能够从抚养子女的过程中得到这种满足。艺术家、作家和科学家如果对自己的工作感到满意,也同样会感到快乐。不过,生活中还是会有很多平凡的快乐。许多在城里工作的人到了周末自愿地在自家,的庭院里做无偿的劳动,春天来时,他们就可尽情享受自己创造的美景带来的快乐。 [解析] 1.文章中有很多定语从句,翻译的时候要灵活处理,注意句子的平衡。
2.unremunerated adj.没有报酬的
3.toll n.苦工