金钱能买到幸福吗.doc

金钱能买到幸福吗.doc常言道，
The old saw that money can't buy happiness always struck me as too vague. 金钱买不来幸福。可这话老让我觉得过于模糊了。
What kind of monbout life satisfaction, those with higher incomes invariably ranked themselves higher than those with lower incomes. 就生活的满意度而言，高收入者通常
比低收入者高。
'Money is an object that many or most people desire, and pursue during the majority
of their waking hours,' wrote study researcher Ed Diener of the University of Illinois and the Gallup Organization. 伊利诺伊大学 (University of Illinois) 与盖洛普公司
(Gallup Organization) 的研究员迪纳 (Ed Diener) 在报告中说，金钱是许多人或者说是大多 数人，在醒着的大多数时间里向往并追求之物。
Since most people want money, they use their financial success as a measure of overall success and a reference for how 'good' their lives are, he wrote. 迪纳在报告中说，
由于多数人有对金钱的欲望，他们就把财力上的成功视为总体成功的一种衡量方式，并将其 视为象征生活优越度的一种参考指标。
What was interesting about the study was how universal the desire for financial
success was across the world. 'People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity,' Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University, told the Washington Post. 'That was unexpected.' 这项研究的有趣之处是，渴望财力上 的成功在全球是多么普遍。普林斯顿大学 (Princeton University)
的心理学与公共事务名誉 教授卡尼曼 (Daniel Kahneman) 接受《华盛顿邮报》 (The Washington Post) 采访时说，多哥 与丹麦的人对美好生活的看法相同，而且大多与金钱及物质上的富有有关。这一点真出乎意 料。
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