综英3U6课后题翻译

我们知道可卡因是容易上瘾的。

海洛因也一样。

但实际上,权力和金钱也同样使人上瘾。

那
些上瘾的人其实都是严重的病人。

We know that cocaine is addictive. So is Heroin. In fact|practice, power and money are addictive. The addicted peopleare the serious patients.
根据很多经济学家的说法,政府挽救那些资不抵债的公司不一定是个好主意.有时一个处于破残边缘的公司，最好就让它破产。

According to many economists, the Government bailing out insolvent company may not be a good idea. sometimes the edges of a broken remnant company, best to let it go bankrupt.
他被逮了个正着。

有无可辩驳的证据证明他书里有整整一章是从另外一个教授的书里原封不
动地抄袭过来的
He was caught red-handed. There is irrefutable evidence that there is an entire chapter in his book is copied intact from another professor's book
但要实行该法
律并不容易。

But it is not easy to implement that law.
牛仔裤、外国电影、音乐都被禁止了。

Jeans, foreign films and music were banned.
在黑暗中，我们的船触了礁，船底留了个大洞。

我们都拼命设法把水从船里弄出去，但船在快速下沉。

幸亏附近有条渔船，使我们绝处逢生。

In the darkness, we ship hit a reef, the ship left a large hole at the end of it. We desperately tried to keep the water out of the ship, but the ship was rapidly sinking. Fortunately, near a fishing boat so that we survive.
示威者要求立即取消经济制裁，因为它通常只会伤害无辜百姓。

Demonstrators demanded the immediate lifting of economic sanctions, as it usually would only hurt innocent people.
但大多数人都赞
成将进一步的改革立即提上日程。

But most people are in favour of further reform to immediately put on the agenda.
It seems a simple matter of logic that increased choice improves well-being.这是个简单的逻辑：选择的增加能提高幸福感。

But in fact, the opposite is true. 但事实并不其然。

Respected social scientists such as psychologist David G. Myers and political scientist Robert E. Lane tell us that increased choice and increased affluence have, in fact, been accompanied by decreased well-being.
David G.Myers 的心理学家和政治学家Robert E. Lane等受人尊重的社会科学家告诉我们：事实上，更多的选择和财富的增加会随之减少福祉。

The American “happiness quotient” has been going gently but consistently downhill for more than a generation. In the last 30 years---a time of great
prosperity---the proportion of the population describing itself as “very happy” has declined. The decline was about 5%. This might not seem much, but 5% translates into about 14 million Americans.
美国"幸福指数"一代比一代有所减缓但是仍在下降。

在过去的30 年的繁荣盛世中，自认为自己是"非常幸福"的人口比例有所下降。

这跌幅约为5%。

这看似下降得不多，但5%转化为美国人是1400 万左右。

Not only that, but today, as a society, more Americans than ever are clinically depressed. By some estimates(for example, those of psychologist Martin Seligman in his book Learned Optimism), depression in the year 2000 was about 10 times as likely as it was in 1900.
不仅仅这样，而且在当今社会中，更多的美国人比以往更抑郁。

一些估算（例如，那些的心理学家Martin Seligman在他的Learned Optimism书中提到），在2000 年的大萧条是1900 年的10倍左右。

Of course, no one believes that a single factor explains this. But accumulating evidence from psychological research indicates that the explosion of choice plays an important role. It seems that as we become freer to pursue and do whatever we want, we get less and less happy.
当然，没有人会相信用单个的因数来解释这。

但从越来越多的心理研究证据表明选择的爆炸发挥了重要作用。

看来当我们变得更自由地追求和做我们想做的，我们会越来越不快乐。