Unit 2 What is happiness to you?
朋友和家人都陪伴著我，鼓勵我，開導我。
guidance 指導，指引
e.g. i need guidance on this matter.
這件事我需要有人指導。
i need some guidance with my studies.
我需要有人指導我的學習。
under his guidance, i managed to solve the problem.
在他的指導下我設法解決了那個問題。
i learned how to ski under his guidance.
我在他的指導下學習滑雪。
3. we will have robots and computers to assist us with the things that are boring.
機器人和電腦會幫我們做那些煩人的事。
assist 幫助，協助
assist sb with sth 幫助某人做某事
e.g. two students assisted me with the experiment. 兩個學生幫我 做這個實驗。
she employed a woman to assist her with the housework. 她雇了一位婦女幫她做家務。
assist sb in doing sth 幫助某人做某事
e.g. he assisted my father in cleaning the car.
他幫我的父親清洗汽車。
she asked us to assist her in carrying out the plan. 她請我們幫她實施那項計劃。
assist sb to do sth 幫助某人做某事
e.g. he assisted us to establish a new company. 他幫助我們成立了一家新公司。
a good dictionary will assist you to understand english. 好詞典會幫助你理解英文。
assist in (doing) sth 幫助做某事
e.g. my father assisted in building our new house.
我父親幫助我們蓋新房子。
he thought he had a duty to assist in this movement. 他認為他有責任幫助這次活動。
ⅱ. 補充材料
what is happiness?
happiness and unhappiness are opposite sides of a judgment about your situation. if you judge your situation as bad for you, that’s unhappiness. if you judge a situation as good for you, that’s happiness.
the experience of happiness is one of those general terms we use to say, “i feel good emotionally.” people use different terms to describe what feels good for them. for someone it might be excitement, passion, exhilaration, fulfillment, freedom, feeling fully alive with inspiration and joy. for another it might be more peaceful, content, capable, hopeful, satisfied, and comfortable feeling. whatever you call it, it just feels darn good.
our natural state of being is to be happy. when you remove all the uncomfortable emotions we humans can experience (and they are numerous), you’re left with happiness. so it’s easiest to define happiness by what it is not.
happiness is what you feel when you’re not feeling....
self doubt, depressed, hateful, fearful, worried, unsatisfied, bored, grief, shame, guilt, discontent, anxious, annoyed, angry, irritated, stressed, frustrated, upset, down, sad, envious, or, jealous.