17.02.15 Flashcards
yield
[T] to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food or information:
A Google search for “happiness” yields 75 million results.
محصول یا نتیجه و غیره) دادن)
zeal
great enthusiasm or eagerness:
While the depth and zeal of our current obsession with being happy may be unprecedented, happiness is an ancient, time-honored pursuit.
اشتیاق شدید، تعصب
unprecedented
C2 never having happened or existed in the past:
While the depth and zeal of our current obsession with being happy may be unprecedented, happiness is an ancient, time-honored pursuit.
بی سابقه
time-honoured
A time-honoured tradition, practice, or method is respected because it has been done or used in the same way for many years:
While the depth and zeal of our current obsession with being happy may be unprecedented, happiness is an ancient, time-honored pursuit.
pursuit noun
(ATTEMPT) C2 [U] the act of trying to achieve a plan, activity, or situation, usually over a long period of time:
the pursuit of happiness
While the depth and zeal of our current obsession with being happy may be unprecedented, happiness is an ancient, time-honored pursuit.
inspiration
B2 [C or U] someone or something that gives you ideas for doing something:
Aristotle – one of Rubin’s Happiness Project inspirations – may have been the original (if accidental) self-help guru, interrogating the causes and definitions of happiness at length in his Nicomachean Ethics.
الهام، الهام بخشی
guru
› a religious leader or teacher in the Hindu or Sikh religion
› informal a person skilled in something who gives advice:
Aristotle – one of Rubin’s Happiness Project inspirations – may have been the original (if accidental) self-help guru, interrogating the causes and definitions of happiness at length in his Nicomachean Ethics.
در مذهب هندو مرجع تقلید و ارشاد، مرشد
excerpt
a short part taken from a speech, book, film, etc.:
Excerpts of that text have been co-opted by thousands of present-day self-help books, lectures, seminars, blog posts and articles touting the secrets and steps to unlimited happiness.
گزیده
tout
[T] to advertise, talk about, or praise something or someone repeatedly, especially as a way of encouraging people to like, accept, or buy something:
Excerpts of that text have been co-opted by thousands of present-day self-help books, lectures, seminars, blog posts and articles touting the secrets and steps to unlimited happiness.
از کسی یا چیزی بسیار تعریف کردن، ستودن، بازارگرمی کردن، (مشتری یا رای دهنده و غیره) جلب کردن، بابوق و کرنا اعلام یا ادعا کردن، لفت و لعاب دادن
co-opt
To co-opt is also to claim something as your own when it was really created by others:
Excerpts of that text have been co-opted by thousands of present-day self-help books, lectures, seminars, blog posts and articles touting the secrets and steps to unlimited happiness.
by-product
something that is produced as a result of making something else, or something unexpected that happens as a result of something:
Whereas Aristotle believed that happiness was the by-product of a life of virtue, we’ve come to associate happiness with a more vague metric of “feeling good.”
محصول جانبی
virtue
C2 [C or U] a good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of being morally good:
Whereas Aristotle believed that happiness was the by-product of a life of virtue, we’ve come to associate
happiness with a more vague metric of “feeling good.”
خوبی، فضیلت
gratify
to please someone, or to satisfy a wish or need:
personal gratification or sensory pleasures
کامروا کردن، خوشنود کردن
sensory
connected with the physical senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight
personal gratification or sensory pleasures
حسی
identify
B2 to recognize someone or something and say or prove who or what that person or thing is
Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence – which identifies the pursuit of happiness as an unalienable right, along with life and liberty –
مشخص کردن
inalienable (formal) = unalienable
unable to be removed:
an inalienable right
سلب نشدنی
conceptualize
verb [I or T] UK formal ( UK usually conceptualise)
to form an idea or principle in your mind:
The rising popularity of utilitarianism also led to a new way of conceptualizing happiness in terms of a pleasure vs. pain.
مفهوم آفریدن، ذهنی کردن
syndicated
(of articles and photographs) sold to several different newspapers and magazines for publishing
Rubin – now a happiness guru, the author of two books on the subject, a sought-after public speaker and nationally syndicated columnist –
discount
[T] to decide that something or someone is not worth considering or giving attention:
Critics have also pointed out that the obsession with happiness may lead some to discount both the presence and the value of the challenging and painful events that are inevitable in our lives
inadequate
C1 not good enough or too low in quality:
– not to mention making us feel inadequate when we fall short of an ideal happiness.
بیصلاحیت، بیلیاقت، ناشایسته
outline
(DESCRIBE)
B2 to give the main facts about something:
Aristotle defined happiness as a life lived in accordance with virtue, and outlined a philosophy of becoming happy through acting virtuously.
رئوس مطالب
founding father
someone who establishes an important organization or idea
The 18th century British economist and founding father of utilitarianism Jeremy Bentham …
بنیانگذار
posit
to suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed:
Rousseau’s Social Contract posited that the rules of society must be created with humanity’s happiness in mind.
transcendent
greater, better, more important, or going past or above all others:
According to McMahon, happiness, rather than service to God or spiritual transcendence, has come to be seen as the ultimate aim of life in many cultures.
الهیات) متعال، برین)