雅思口语话题之a recent event

　　在“最近开心的事情”中的part 3讨论中，会涉及到很多的钱与快乐的讨论，推荐大家可以看看这篇文章里的句型、单词和表达，获得更多更好的语料。

　　Our materialistic society has led us to believe that happiness cannot be obtained without having money.

　　在这个物质社会，我们深信没有钱就没有幸福感。

　　Rather than learning to be satisfied with what we have, we are taught to want more. We learn from advertising, and from the media, that we need to buy trinkets and toys in order to make ourselves happy, or to fulfill emotional needs, and that the purchases they are trying to talk us into will provide us with the psychological comfort we are looking for.

　　我们不断的奢望得到更多而不是学着满足我们现有的。通过广告和媒体，我们了解到为了让自己开心，为了满足心理需求，我们需要买一些小玩意儿和玩具，仿佛买了这些东西我们就能找到一直想要的心理安慰。

　　Unfortunately, as a society we have bought into these misguided messages and have come to believe that spending money on certain items will bring us fame, fortune, happiness, beauty, or popularity. We end up using money as a crutch to provide us with something we ultimately must find within ourselves. As we become caught up in this charade, we trade precious hours of our lives trying to earn the money we have been taught to covet so much.

　　不幸的是我们还是会被这些信息误导并且开始相信花钱买一些东西会带给我们带来声誉，运气，快乐，美丽或者名气。我们不断拿金钱作为靠山，得到最终想要的东西。一次一次我们深陷其中，于是，为了买到我们垂涎已久的东西，我们用宝贵的时间辛苦赚钱。

　　We trade hours of our lives working, sacrificing time that could have been spent with our families, for the pursuit of the almighty dollar.

　　我们把生命中的每时每刻拿来工作，牺牲我们本该和家人在一起的时间，只为了追求的美元。

　　In order to find true happiness, we first must learn to change our attitudes about money. We must learn that money, and the spending of it, provides only a temporary relief but does not present us with any real long lasting benefits. We end up owning something we either do not really want or do not really need, and the underlying emotional issues remain.

　　为了找到真正的快乐，我们必须首先改变对待金钱的态度。我们必须要知道花掉挣到的钱只是让我们暂时舒坦，却并不能带来任何持久的利益。我们拥有一些实际上我们根本不想要或根本不需要的东西，而内在的情感问题依然没有解决。