"There could be a number of reasons," he said, "for example, people do many things to make themselves happier: they strive for promotion or pay rises, or they get married."

“可能有很多原因，” 他说，“例如，人们能通过很多事情让自己更快乐：他们努力争取升职或加薪的机会，或者找个人结婚。”

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Many people do fun things to make themselves stand out, like wear silly clothes or do things instead of just running.

很多人会做一些有趣的事情来让自己脱颖而出，比如跑步的时候穿傻傻的衣服或者做一些其他事情，而不仅仅是单纯的跑步。

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Americans assume that people need some time to themselves or some time alone to think about things or recover their spent psychological energy.

美国人认为，人们需要一些自己的时间或一些独处的时间，来思考或恢复他们消耗的心理能量。

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They enjoyed jokes and laughing at funny things that happened to themselves or others.

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So we now have a real usable criterion to help guide our understanding of whether things happen by themselves of their own accord or not.

所以我们找到了一个非常有用的判据,这个判据能够指导我们,弄明白变化是否,是自发发生的。

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Once it became true that people could raise food or gather food, or produce food for more than just themselves or their families, meant that people were free to do other things.

这些成为现实之后,人类不仅仅能为他们自己或家人,种植,收集或制造食物,也就是说人们可以有空来做别的事情

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Women are much more likely than men to use their earnings for the good of the family, rather than spending it on alcohol or other things for themselves.

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Some 52% of the poorest children agreed that not having enough money made their parents unhappy or stressed and 43% 'strongly agreed' that their parents were cutting back on things for themselves such as clothes or food.

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Perhaps the biggest threat to the test is that no one uses fountain pens any more, and so inkblots themselves have more or less become things of the past.

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