As adults, it seems that we're constantly pursuing happiness, often with mixed results.

作为成年人，我们似乎一直在追求幸福，结果往往喜忧参半。

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People in serious accidents with their paralysis as the result of the accident, very often, usually-- again, this is all the average-- go back to their base level of happiness: if they are happy before, they will be happy one year after; if they are unhappy, they will remain unhappy.

遇到严重意外的人,意外导致瘫痪，经常地，一般性的…,再次强调，这是平均而言-,都会恢复到基础幸福水平：,他们以前是快乐的，一年后，他们也会快乐;,如果不快乐，将维持不快乐。

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NBC's The Office is more about success and happiness, not because success necessarily equals happiness, but because in the lives of these office characters, happiness often begets success.

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And yet people find each other, every which way, and often achieve something that they call happiness.

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"It follows that economic development and personal income must not account for the happiness that they are so often linked to, " the academics note.

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