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词汇 example_english_pursuit-of-happiness
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pursuit of happiness

collocation in English

meanings of pursuitand happiness


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pursuit
noun
uk /pəˈsjuːt/ us /pɚˈsuːt/
an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are ...
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happiness
noun[U]
uk /ˈhæp.i.nəs/ us /ˈhæp.i.nəs/
the feeling of ...
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Examples of pursuit of happiness


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The outcome, though based on the legislator delivering minimal conditions for the pursuitofhappiness, would nonetheless be practical and realizable.
The natural progress of human improvement reflected striving by individuals for higher levels of virtue, not the pursuitofhappiness or material goods.
Political liberty came to be defined in terms of individual self-interest: the defence of property and private pursuitofhappiness, rather than public service or social purpose.
Is a rich man, merely because he is a rich man, not to have life and liberty and the pursuitofhappiness?
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The pursuitofhappiness, though good governments will avoid impeding it, is nevertheless again an individual pursuit.
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And there exists life, liberty, and the means to the pursuitofhappiness, to such a degree that they come crowding in whenever they can.
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There can be no right to liberty or to the pursuitofhappiness if first there is no right to life.
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And among those rights are life, liberty and the pursuitofhappiness.
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Life comes before liberty, and certainly before the pursuitofhappiness, whatever that means precisely.
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But it is also a place of decent human beings, seeking to live with dignity and in pursuitofhappiness and peace.
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But the main threat to life and the pursuitofhappiness in this country does not come from the police.
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The first civil liberty is the right to life and the pursuitofhappiness.
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Does he want to claim that their system of social security denies their citizens life, liberty, and the pursuitofhappiness?
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It is a test case of the right of human beings to embark on the most ancient and instinctive of all their callings—the pursuitofhappiness.
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We are far from the pursuitofhappiness which the most perceptive politicians of the late eighteenth century regarded as an inalienable right of human beings.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
People who have served prison sentences should not be deprived for the rest of their lives of the right to life, liberty and the pursuitofhappiness.
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The pursuitofhappiness and the greatest good for the greatest number starts with the one thing that frightens us all; are we in good health or not?
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After food, shelter and basic healthcare, the quality of life and the plural excitements of our multicultural society are essential to liberty and the pursuitofhappiness.
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Among these are life, liberty and the pursuitofhappiness, but after trampling over sixteen million of your brothers.
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