就连作为当地人主要收入来源的橡胶树，也因干旱而无法生产乳胶。

Even rubber trees, the local people's main source of income, were so dry that they could no longer produce rubber latex.

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幸福感本身可以用各种不同的方式定义：它可能包含各种各样的成分，也可能是一件生活的作品，抑或连作品也算不上；但绝大多数的人们却仍坚持不懈地追寻这个难以捉摸的目标。

Happiness itself can be defined in many different ways, it may have all kinds of components, it may be a life's work, or even no work at all, but we are, most of us, in pursuit of this elusive goal.

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究其原因，部分是因为作者的论题——语言乃探析人性之窗——过于宽泛；甚至连作者本人也不得不承认，所有和语言学相关的论据都得屈从于该论题。

Part of the problem is that Mr Pinker's thesis—that language is a window into human nature—is so broad as to admit practically anything with a linguistic bent to it as evidence.

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