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It's more important that you think about it in terms of whether it's going to increase your long-term happiness and the meaning that you experience in life.

更重要的是，你要考虑这是否会提高你长期的幸福和你人生经历的意义。

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He said this study was designed to understand how changes in long-term emotional states - meaning, whether you consider yourself a happy or sad person overall - are affected by the people you know.

他表示，该研究的目的是为了了解人们的心境如何受到周围人的影响。这里的心境是指一个人大体上的情绪状态，是开心愉悦还是闷闷不乐。

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Even if children are irksome now, they lend meaning to life in the long term.

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Net long-term capital losses from any rate category are first applied against the highest tax rate long-term capital gains (meaning, for example, gains from collectibles taxed at 28%).

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