Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

在你把这个论点当作垃圾置之不理之前，或者在你认为对于一个极其贫困、学术成就低和高辍学率的国家而言，快乐是一种负担不起的奢侈品之前，再想想吧。

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The same countries also have low levels of education, high death rates, and extreme poverty.

与此同时，这些国家的受教育水平很低，死亡率很高，存在极端贫困现象。

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Business profits are low and poverty rates are high.

公司的利润降低，贫困率升高。

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Meanwhile, Mississippi scored at or near the bottom on 11 of the 22 survey measures, showing a high prevalence of obesity, high rate of childhood poverty, low high school graduation rates, limited availability of primary care physicians and many preventable hospitalizations.

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The valleys pose particular problems, with their legacy of ill-health, low skill levels and low employment activity rates, but there are also concentrations of poverty along the North Wales coastline, in south Pembrokeshire and in parts of Cardiff, Newport and Swansea.

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Older households have seen poverty rates decline over time, and are now at a record low of 11%.

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