| 单词 | happiness |
| 释义 | hap·pi·ness 1. archaic < all happiness bechance to thee — Shakespeare > 2. a. (1) (2) < I had the happiness of seeing you — W.S.Gilbert > b. Aristotelianism 3. < his examples lack happiness > < a striking happiness of expression > Synonyms: < pleasures may come about through chance contact and stimulation; such pleasures are not to be despised in a world full of pain. But happiness and delight are a different sort of thing. They come to be through a fulfillment that reaches to the depths of our being — one that is an adjustment of our whole being with the conditions of existence — John Dewey > felicity, a more bookish or elevated word, may denote a higher, more lasting, or more perfect happiness < all the felicity which a marriage of true affection could bestow — Jane Austen > < felicity or continued happiness consists not in having prospered, but in the process of prospering — Frank Thilly > beatitude refers in this sense to the highest happiness, the felicity of the blessed < the years of loving sacrifice in scraping that boxful without letting Patty go short were amply crowned for John by this one moment. He sat down again the in corner wrapped in beatitude — Mary Webb > < a sense of deep beatitude — a strange sweet foretaste of Nirvana — Max Beerbohm > blessedness suggests the deep joy of pure affection or of acceptance by a god < the blessedness of the saints > bliss may apply to a complete and assured felicity < all my life's bliss from thy dear life was given — Emily Brontë > < now safely lodged in perfect bliss; and with spirits elated to rapture — Jane Austen > |
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