关于工作和娱乐的英语作文

　　一、work and pleasure

关于工作和娱乐的英语作文

　　to be really happy and really safe, oneought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. it isno use starting late in life to say: “i will take an interest in this or that.”such an attempt only

　　aggravates the strain of mental effort. a man may acquiregreat knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly getany benefit or relief. it is no use doing what you like; you have got to

　　likewhat you do. broadly speaking, human being may be divided into three classes: thosewho are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who arebored to death. it is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hardweek’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseballon saturday afternoon. it is no use inviting the politician or the professionalor business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for sixdays, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.

　　it may also be said that rational,industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first,

　　thosewhose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whosework and pleasure are one. of these the former are the majority. they havetheir compensations. the long hours in the office or the factory bring withthem as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite forpleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. but fortune’s favoredchildren belong to the second class. their life is a natural harmony. for themthe working hours are never long enough. each day is a holiday, and ordinaryholidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an

　　absorbingvacation. yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a changeof atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. indeed, it may well bethat those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means ofbanishing it at intervals from their minds.

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　　工作和娱乐

　　要想真正生活得幸福和平安，一个人至少应该有两三种业余爱好，而且必须是真正的爱好。到了晚年才开始说“我要培养这个或那个兴趣”是毫无用处的，种这种尝试只会增加精神上的负担。在与自己日常工作无关的领域中，一个人可以获得渊博的.知识，但却很难有所收益或得到放松。做自己喜欢的事是无益的，你得喜欢自己所做的事。广言之，人可以分为三个类别：劳累而死的人，忧虑而死的人和无聊而死的人。对于那些体力劳动者来说，一周辛苦的工作使他们精疾力竭，因此在周六下午给他们提供踢足球或者打棒球的机会是没有意义的。对于政界人士，专业人士或者商人来说，他们已经为棘手的事务操劳或者烦恼了六天，因此在周末请他们为琐事劳神同样毫无意义。

　　或者可以这么说，理智的，勤奋的，有用的人可以分为两类：对第一类人而言，工作就是工作，娱乐就是娱乐；对于第二类人而言，工作和娱乐是合二为一的。很大一部分人属于前者。他们可以得到相应的补偿。在办公室或工厂里长时间的工作，不仅带给他们维持生计的金钱，还带给他们一种渴求娱乐的强烈欲望，哪怕这种娱乐消遣是以最简单，最淳朴的方式进行的。而第二类人则是命运的宠儿。他们的生活自然而和谐。在他们看来，工作时间永远不够多，每天都是假期；而当正常的假日到来时，他们总会抱怨自己有趣的休假被强行中断。然而，有一些东西对于这两类人来说都十分必要，那就是变换一下视角，改变一下氛围，尝试做点不同的事情。事实上，那些把工作看作娱乐的人可能是需要以某种方式将工作不时地驱赶出自己的大脑。

　　二、crazy work

　　last week i read blogs on the internet, one article touched my heart. it recorded three women in china, who worked overtime to death. no matter how we surprise, we had to admit that their stories were real. nowadays people attach importance to houses and cars, but what is the most important to us? we may say life. yes, without life, there is nothing we can do. of course they also know the importance of life, but they didn’t notice that their lives were going on disappeared. if they had realized their serious consequences they might have quitted office and live an ordinary life with their parents and children. however, most of time we are unwilling to live what we choose at present. we are not driving but driven in such a world.

　　crazy working reluctantly seems to be normal in today’s society. we often see our friends or colleagues often stay up late to work overtime until 2 or 3 o’clock a.m. we often see them look dreadful because of enormous physical and psychological pressure. now some of us are facing the problem of hunting ideal jobs. some said they would choose to work in first tier cities like beijing or shanghai or guangzhou, and then they would go back to their hometown or some second tier cities. it seems reasonable that we plan to go all out in work for one or two years when we are young. but whether our plan will be carried out smoothly or not depends on our own wisdom. one of my sisters went to an enviable consulting company. several years later she shifted from

　　high-paying field to administrative services. when asked why, she said it was horrible. her female colleagues were afraid of pregnancy. some pregnant women had to stay up late for piles of work and some even cannot bear children because of poor body conditions. she also found that many families around were not so happy. the reason was very easy, they had no time to stay with their families.

　　why we have less freedom with more with more and more material abundance? of course we can ignore this problem and live our own life. but in the fast-tempo society people would be like the worker ,acted by comedian chaplin in modern times, who kept turning the screw and everything like screw until he was completely exhausted did he stopped.

　　when i was a child, my mother often sang chinese classic song of angel matches. so what kind of couples can be called angel matches? the lyrics describe the scene that husband ploughs and wife weaves, husband carries water and wife waters garden. thirty years later, our criteria for his future husband is that he must have car and big house without loans and with an amount of deposit. there

　　is a great prosperity of material wealth in modern society, which enslaves and prevents people from pursuing their true love. in fact, if we lose our heart home, no matter how big the house is, it cannot give us senses of security and satisfaction.

　　therefore, in my point of view, we must give up something if we want to increase freedom. because the good things such as dream, passion, love and so on, are the most invaluable in our life. so we should think over what we want and what suits us best. only in this way can we live a happy life.

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