中石油2016通用英语选读课文41HappinessIndex幸福指数.doc

41 Happiness Indexn. 索引；偏意：指数幸福指数 1. In terms of happiness, your spousen配偶—if you have one—is worth $100,000 a year. 1、就幸福而言，你的配偶—如果你有的话—值10万美元一年。 2. Thats the finding of two economists who have tried to put a monetaryadj金钱的，货币的 value on happiness by measuring the emotional情感的 value of everything from religion宗教，信仰 to racial discrimination种族歧视 in dollars以美元为单位. 2、这就是两位经济学家研究的结果，他们试图从金钱的角度来衡量幸福，以美元为单位，对从宗教到种族歧视等各种情感进行估价。 3. Such a calculation计算, admits承认 economist David Blanchflower, is a little bit有点儿 off the wall荒诞的，疯狂的 and may promptvt激起，促进 wryadj扭曲的，歪曲的vt扭曲 comments评论，意见 within some marriages on cashing in兑现. 3、经济学家大卫·布兰奇弗劳尔承认，这种计算是“有点离奇”，并可能引起不当的想法，认为有些人结婚是为了 “从中捞取好处” 。 4. The two economists are, of course, speaking of提及，谈到 averages. They have used an annual每年的，年度的 survey of some 1,500 Americans from 1972 to 1998 to measure self- reported自述的 happiness and the factors that go with it. But it turns out that the happiness value of a stable稳定的 marriage is incredibly难以置信地 high, says Dr. Blanchflower, a professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., whose study has just been published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. Dont give it up lightly. 4、当然，这两位经济学家是就一般人而言的。他们从1972年到1998年每年对大约1500名美国人进行调查，衡量他们自述的幸福和产生幸福的因素。结果表明，一个稳定的婚姻的幸福值“髙得令人难以置信”，布兰奇弗劳尔博士如是说。布兰奇弗劳尔博士是新罕布什尔州汉诺威市达特默思大学教授， 他的研究成果新近已由马萨诸塞州剑桥市的全国经济研究局发表。他还说：“不要轻易放弃婚姻。” 5. Blanchflower and his partner Andrew Oswald, an economist at Warwick University in Britain, begin with this question: Taken all together总的来说, how would you say things are these days—would you say that you are happy, pretty happy, or not so happy? 5、布兰奇弗劳尔和他的合作伙伴——英国华威大学的经济学家安德鲁?奥斯瓦尔德，是以这个问题开始他们的调查的：“总的来说，你会怎样描述近况——是快乐、相当快乐，还是不怎么快乐？”how would you say…用两个特殊疑问句提出问题；谓语say后接两个宾语从句。 6. The survey results include detailed characteristics of those surveyed, such as whether they are married, divorced, single, their income level, race种族, gender性别, etc. With that data, they found which factors are associated with与…有关 greater