If you have to try to be cool, you will never be cool. If you have to try to be happy, then you will never be happy. Maybe the problem these days is that people are just trying too hard.?

如果你努力讓自己冷靜下來(lái)，你就永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)冷靜。如果你努力讓自己變得快樂(lè)，那么你永遠(yuǎn)也不會(huì)快樂(lè)。也許現(xiàn)在的問(wèn)題是人們太努力了。

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Happiness, like other emotions, is not something you obtain, but rather something you inhabit. Research shows that people who focus their energy on materialistic and superficial pleasures end up more anxious, more emotionally unstable and less happy in the long-run.

快樂(lè)，像其他的情感一樣，不是你努力獲得的東西，而是你所處的狀態(tài)。研究表明，那些把精力集中在物質(zhì)上和低層次娛樂(lè)的人，最終會(huì)更加焦慮，情緒上更加不穩(wěn)定，并且從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)來(lái)看，他并不快樂(lè)。

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Pleasure is the most superficial form of life satisfaction and therefore the easiest. Pleasure is what’s marketed to us. It’s what we fixate on. It’s what we use to numb and distract ourselves. But pleasure, while necessary, isn’t sufficient. There’s something more.

娛樂(lè)是人生最膚淺的滿足形式，因此也是最容易的。娛樂(lè)是可以被推銷(xiāo)給我們的。它是我們所關(guān)注的，也是我們用來(lái)麻痹和分散自己注意力的。這種娛樂(lè)，雖然是有必要的，但卻遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠。我們應(yīng)該有更高的追求。

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【重點(diǎn)詞匯&表達(dá)】

1.inhabit

?棲息；居住于；占據(jù)

2.Research shows that

?研究表明

3.materialistic?[m?,t??r??'l?st?k]

?物質(zhì)的；唯物主義的；金錢(qián)至上的

4.superficial?[,su?p?'f??(?)l]

?表面的；膚淺的?

5.in the long-run

?從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)來(lái)看

6.fixate?[f?k'se?t]

?注視；固定下來(lái)

7.numb?[n?m]

?麻木的；發(fā)愣的

8.distract ourselves

?讓我們自己分心

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