They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.
他们发现，按照时间安排工作的人的效率更高，但幸福感更低，因为他们觉得自己无法掌控自己的生活。
TV might make you less happy, but this is not what seems to be driving the recent declines in young people's average happiness.
电视可能会让你不那么快乐，但这似乎并不是导致最近年轻人平均幸福感下降的原因。
TV might make you less happy , but this is not what seems to be driving the recent declines in young people's average happiness.
看电视可能会让你变得不那么开心，但这似乎不是近期导致年轻人平均幸福感下降的原因。
They found that those who compared their incomes with others tended to be less happy.
他们发现那些跟别人比较收入多少的人倾向于体会到更少的幸福。
Both groups regarded older people as less happy.
这两个群体认为老年人不快乐。
"Generally, they were less happy when they woke up and most happy at 7 p.m.," Steptoe says.
“一般看来，他们在醒来时不太高兴，在晚七点时最高兴。”Steptoe说。
Americans grew far less happy once their economy slipped into a severe recession in 2008.
2008年，当美国经济陷入严重衰退时，美国人似乎变得远没有原来幸福。
His parents are no less happy over his engagement than he is (happy over his engagement).
他的双亲对他订婚的高兴并不亚于他本人。
Even if our incomes are rising, we tend to become less happy if the incomes of others are rising even more.
即便是自己的收入在增加，如果他人增加得更多，我们也不会高兴。
But maybe this result simply shows that the people who chose money are more financially constrained and therefore less happy.
不过，调查结果也许仅仅表明，选择金钱的人在财务上受到更大的羁绊，因此幸福感较低。
But, here's the interesting thing: in richer nations, those who are religious are actually less happy than their non-religious neighbors.
但是，有趣的是：在富裕国家，信徒比无信仰者感受到更少的幸福。
But being overly concerned with safety appears to produce poorer relationships with children and also appears to make children less happy.
但是过多的考虑安全问题又会使父母与孩子的关系变得不那么亲切，也会使孩子们变得不开心。
Now the conventional wisdom is the opposite: lots of choice makes people less likely to choose anything, and less happy when they do choose.
如今，普遍的观点则恰恰相反：大量选择更有可能让人们什么都不选，而在选择时也不那么快乐。
A growing number of people are coming to the conclusion that the civilization in the West is more materially rich but, paradoxically, less and less happy.
越来越多的人开始发现西方文明更多的是物质的丰富，相反，人却变得越来越不快乐。
Still, even if people are less happy when their minds wander, which causes which? Could the mind-wandering be a consequence rather than a cause of unhappiness?
还有一个问题，就算人们在走神时更加不快乐，是何者导致了何者？是否走神是不快乐的结果，而非诱因？
According to the Observer newspaper, many people now believe the country is more dangerous, less happy and less pleasant than it was in the pre-Blair era.
《观察家》报的调查表示，很多民众认为与布莱尔任首相之前相比，今天的英国更加危险、民众变得不快乐、舒适度也不如从前。
The researchers found that women who valued happiness more reported being less happy and more depressed than women who didn't place much importance on the goal.
研究人员发现，重视快乐的女性却很少能感受快乐，甚至会比那些不太在意追求快乐的人更忧郁。
According to a new study, a happy life and a meaningful life are not the same thing. In fact, the single-minded pursuit of happiness can leave people less happy.
许多人都认为人生意义在于追求幸福的过程，而最新研究表明，幸福的人生与有意义的人生不能画上等号。
If physical beauty were the only important factor in bringing people together, the divorce rate would be much higher than it is today and people would be far less happy.
如果外表美是使人们结合的唯一重要因素，离婚率就会远高于我们今天看到的，人们也会远没有这么快乐。
They found that if someone's mind wandered at, say, 10 in the morning, then at 10:15 that person was likely to be less happy than at 10, perhaps because of those stray thoughts.
他们发现如果某个人在上午10点走神了，那么10：15分的时候那个人很可能比在10点的时候更不快，也许是因为那些游离的念头。
They found that if someone's mind wandered at, say, 10 in the morning, then at 10:15 that person was likely to be less happy than at 10 , perhaps because of those stray thoughts.
他们发现如果某个人在上午10点走神了，那么10:15分的时候那个人很可能比在10点的时候更不快，也许是因为那些游离的念头。
But there is another, less happy, explanation for the rapid shift in the global centre of economic gravity: the lack of growth in the big rich economies of America, western Europe and Japan.
但是，这一全球经济重心的迅速转移还有一个不那么令人高兴的解释：美国、西欧及日本等富裕国家缺乏增长。
Investors celebrating the new bull market's first birthday on Tuesday may remember a less happy milestone on Wednesday: the 10-year anniversary of the peak of the technology-stock bubble.
投资者周二庆祝新一轮牛市的首个生日时可能会想起一件败兴的事：本周三是科技股触顶十周年纪念日。
Some psychologists suggest taking "mental photographs" of pleasurable moments to review in less happy times. You can train your mind to see happiness even when you "re in stressful conditions."
一些心理学家建议，快乐的时候拍下“精神照片”，以便在不开心的时候重新回味。
By contrast, less-happy people are more apt to be defensive, isolated, and self-absorbed, and unfortunately, their negative moods are catching (technical name: emotional contagion).
形成对比地是，较不快乐的人更倾向于防御、孤立、自我沉醉，而且不幸地是，他们消极的情绪有传给别人的能力(术语：情绪传染)。
By contrast, less-happy people are more apt to be defensive, isolated, and self-absorbed, and unfortunately, their negative moods are catching (technical name: emotional contagion).
形成对比地是，较不快乐的人更倾向于防御、孤立、自我沉醉，而且不幸地是，他们消极的情绪有传给别人的能力(术语：情绪传染)。
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