与金钱有关的英语作文(2)

    ver the past 15 years,researchers have studied the connection between money and happiness. Their findings shatter many misconceptions. Here are five of the most surprising results.     1. Everyone needs a few luxuries to be happy.     A six-figure income affords a family many pleasures-- a more luxurious home, perhaps a trip to Disneyland or a fancier car. But do such things make you happier?     Pleasure is not the same as happiness. Pleasure is a temporary release.  Happiness comes from experiences in which one's mental and emotional energies are invested.     Just as happy families value pleasures that involve personal effort, so they value possessions that have personal meaning, like Grandma's wedding ring. Unhappy people,however, are more likely to prize possessions because of their cost or utility, a car that handles well or an expensive necklace.     2. Happiness is a permanent vacation.     Would you quit your job if you didn' t need the money?Many Americans said quitting work was an important reason to be rich. Yet researchers find that work is one of life's chief satisfactions for people.
    A job, studies show, is more than a paycheck. Doing something well can increase confidence and self-worth.     3. A big raise would make you happy.     If jobs are so important, wouldn't salary size be a gauge of job satisfaction? Americans think so. A survey found that almost 70 percent of the respondents said they would be happier if their families had twice as much household income. Yet studies show that job satisfaction comes less from how much people earn than from the challenge of their jobs and the control they are able to exert. Work that doesn't engage a person will never seem rewarding, no matter how lucrative it becomes.     4. Nothing comforts like cash.     In times of crisis--a debilitating illness or loss of one's home--money can come in pretty handy. But for all its benefits, it cannot fortify you against the inevitable pain and sadness that follow the crisis. For that, researchers say, you need close friendships. "Human beings are hard-wired to be social animals". "They're not built to handle things alone."     5. Happiness and wealth aren't mutually exclusive.
   It's possible to have both--or neither. But most believe that those who have happiness, in the long run, have more.Even author Oscar Wilde agreed: "Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may notbe taken from you."

篇六：金钱不能带来快乐 Money Brings No Happiness

    Last Friday, I attended an EPC class and we talked about whether money can buy happiness. As a human, we all have body, emotion and spirit. Happiness is kind of emotion or spirit for our life and the most precious thing to us. Without it, a man will feel that his misery fate has taken charge of him and the world is utterly dark and dreadful. The teacher asked us some questions about happy at first. We answered differently. My partner and I answered that happiness is a fate that we are glad to do many things and have confidence to do them well.
    But how to be happy? Can money buy happiness? Obviously it can’t. In the class, we saw a sentence “Happiness is a state without any desires”. We discussed hearty about it and some of us agreed to it. They held that desires are power that can push us to keep working hard, so that we can have a better life, and then be happy. However，others did not think like that. They argued that desires come from comparison. When we do better than others and gain more than others, we just have a sense of satisfaction instead of happiness. Then, teacher asked us that if we have a lot of money, what we can do to gain happiness. Some students thought that giving money to poor people will make them happy. In the others’ opinions, using money to play together with friends and families will make them happy. In short, giving and sharing will bring happiness to us. Then, teacher showed us series of data of the happy career. These data show that barber, the happiest job, accounts for the largest proportion However, designer is the unhappiest one. The teacher said that human is a kind of social animal, so people will be happier to stay and talk with others especially in low pressure. In a word, helping others and communicating with others will make us happy.
    In my opinion, Being happy is easy, because we have no reasons to be unhappy. When we meet some troubles in lives, we just try our best to overcome them without any hesitation. When I am sad, I would have a comfortable sleep. After a good sleep, I will feel much better. So I think being happy is easy for me.

篇七：爱比金钱更重要 Love Is More Important Than Money

    When asked money and love which one is more important, different people have different ideas. As for me, love is more important. My reasons are as follows.
    当问到金钱和爱情哪一个更重要时，不同的人有不同的观点。对我而言，我觉得爱情更重要。我的原因如下。
    First, money cannot buy true love. The girl who firmly stated on a TV dating show that she would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle is just a case in point. From this point we can see that, no matter how rich people are, they cannot buy true love.
    首先，金钱买不到真爱。一个女孩在交友节目上坚定地说，她宁愿坐在宝马上面哭也不愿意坐在自行车上面笑，就是一个很好的例子。从这一点我们可以看出，不管一个人多富有，他都买不到真爱。
    Second, love is above wealth. "Naked" wedding or "naked" marriage is a hot topic these days. More and more young people begin to marry each other without a big property. In these cases, love is more important than money.
    其次，爱情超越财富。“裸婚礼”或者“裸婚”是这些日子的热题。越来越多的年轻人开始和没有大财产的人结婚。从这种情况来看，爱情比金钱更重要。
    To sum up, love is far more important than money. Provided that we lose wealth, we may regain it by working hard. But if we lose love, it will be impossible to make up for it.
    总是，爱情远比金钱重要。假如我们失去了财富，我们可以通过努力重新获得。但是如果我们失去了爱情，就不可能弥补了。