○  优秀英语演讲稿：寻找快乐（带翻译）  ○

seeking pleasure

not long ago, i read this story in a magazine: there was once a group of young people searching everywhere for pleasure but what they got was only annoyance , melancholy and torture.

so they turned to socrates for advice on where pleasure lay. but instead of giving any answers, socrates asked them to help with building a boat first. the group of guys had to set about the task, laying aside their own business of seeking pleasure. it took them a long time to cut down a tall tree, gouging out the center. through painstaking effort, they made a canoe out of the tree. they launched the canoe into a river, and then rowed together in it, singing with joy.

socrates asked: “my children, do you have pleasure now?” they answered in chorus: “we couldn’t be happier!” socrates added, “that’s it! whenever you are too busy pursuing something definite to notice anything bitter, pleasure will occur.”

from the story i got to know that pleasure always hides behind every tiny thing that you are engaged in, and that you may only get pleasure through hard work and creativity.

it also tells us that we might have no alternative but to experience some pain in our daily life and in the process of seeking pleasure, or sometimes tend to look for pleasure in material things, like a new car, clothes, etc, but true long term pleasure comes from within our soul and spirit. so why not turn suffering into praising life, and turn tears into the light in your heart, only in this way can we make it through and hold the magical spark to light the fire of life.

so my dear friends, just remember pleasure is a state of mind and a matter of choice, and i wish you all a life of pleasure.

寻找快乐

前几天，我在一份杂志上看到一则这样的故事：一群年轻人到处寻找快乐，却遇到许多烦恼，忧愁和痛苦。

他们向苏格拉底请教，快乐到底在哪里?苏格拉底没有立即给他们答案，而是让他们先帮助造一艘船。这帮年轻人暂时把寻找快乐的事儿放到一边，开始这项工作。他们花了很长时间锯倒了一棵又高又大的树，挖空树心，造出了一条独木船。独木船下水了，他们一边合力荡浆，一边齐声快乐的唱起歌来。

苏格拉底问：“孩子们，你们快乐吗?”他们齐声回答：“快乐极了!”苏格拉底道：“快乐就是这样，它往往在你为着一个明确的目的忙的无暇顾及其他的时候突然来访。”

从这个故事当中我知道了，快乐隐藏在你用心做的每一件小事当中，通过我们的努力和创造，才能得到快乐。

它还告诉我们，在生活中和追求快乐的过程中，可能无法避免会遇到一些痛苦，人们往往把快乐建立在对物质的追求上，像一辆新车，新衣服，等等。但真正意义上的快乐应该是从精神上得到的。为什么不把痛苦锤炼成对生命的赞扬，把眼泪作为心灵的灯盏呢?只有这样才会真正寻找到快乐，一展生命中灿烂的光泽!

朋友们，请记住：快乐是一种心态，也是一种选择，我祝愿大家一生快乐!

smile for life

first, ladies and gentlemen, please look at my face. do you know what i’m doing? yes, quite right, i’m smiling.

i like smiling, because it makes me more confident and more popular.

don’t you think it important?

can you imagine a world without smiles? can you bear seeing sad faces here and there? what a gloomy world it would without smiles!

but people sometimes overlook the importance of smiling since it is so simple. it seems that people are always in such a hurry for their own business that they complain a lot about the lack of happiness in life and some people even want to be harry porter to learn the magic spell of happiness.

now and here i should that, ladies and gentlemen, every one of us knows exactly well what the spell actually is and the spell is so simple and just at hand. what is it? that’s smile.

smile is such a magic spell. it is a kind of emotional contact. it makes strangers becomes friends. it makes parents and children understand each other better and it makes the love between lovers deeper.

smile is such a magic spell. it’s also a kind of encouragement. it makes people feel warm in ice and snow. it gives thirsty people power to walk on in a dessert. it makes cowards become brave and it makes people see hope in desperate situations.

so please remember ‘smile & make your life brighter’ and smile for life. every time you smile you give yourself a perfect chance to enjoy life. every time you smile, you bring the brilliant sunshine to the whole world around you as well as to yourself.

nike tells us just do it. so i will say: just smile it.

为生活微笑

首先，女士们、先生们，请注意看我的脸。你们知道我在干什么吗?对，很正确，我在微笑。

我喜欢微笑。因为它可以使我看上去更自信、更受人欢迎。

难道你们不认为微笑很重要吗?

你能想象一个没有微笑的世界吗?你能忍受整天看着一张张悲哀的脸四处游荡吗?没有微笑的世界将是多么阴郁!

但是人们有时会忽略微笑的重要，因为它太平凡了。人们似乎总是陷在一阵为各自工作而忙碌的慌乱之中而时常抱怨生活中缺少欢乐。甚至还有些人希望成为哈利·波特，学会欢乐的魔咒。

女士们、先生们，现在在这里我要告诉你们的是：“其实我们每一个人都十分清楚欢乐魔咒的真正内容，而且咒语本身也是普通至极、唾手可得。是什么?那就是微笑。

微笑就是这样一条神奇的咒语。它可以使陌生人成为朋友，它可以使父母和子女互相理解，它也可以使恋人之间的爱情更加深厚。

微笑就是这样一条神奇的咒语。它还是一种鼓舞与激励。它让冰雪中艰难求索的人感到温暖;它给沙漠中干渴将死的人以继续前进的力量;它让懦夫变的勇敢;它让人们在绝望中看到希望的曙光。

所以请记住：“微笑让你的生活更美好”并为生活微笑吧!每一微笑都会给你一个享受生活的绝佳良机;每一次微笑都会给你和全世界带来灿烂的阳光!

让我们模仿着nike的广告语说：“just smile it!”