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???? ?在你看来，幸福是什么？是拥有一份收入不错的工作？是受到别人的认同和赞扬？还是跟爱的人在一起过着简单的小日子... 它跟快乐又是否等同呢？? ????? ?相信每个人的人生追求不一样，幸福的定义自然就会不一样！来看看这位作者对“幸福”的感想吧！ ? 　　I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a?glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.　　我住在好莱坞。你可能认为住在这样一个魅力四射、充满欢笑的地方要比其他人更幸福。倘若如此，你就误解了幸福的本质。 　　Many intelligent people still?equate?happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more?abiding?emotion.　　许多聪明人依旧将幸福与娱乐等同起来。事实上，娱乐与幸福很少、甚至毫无共同之处。娱乐是某个活动进行中的体验，而幸福则是活动之后的体验。幸福是更深刻、更持久的情感。 　　Going to an?amusement?park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.　　去游乐场或去看球赛，看电影或看电视，这些都是娱乐活动，有助于我们放松身心，暂时忘却自己的难题，甚至让我们放声大笑。但是，这一切并不能带来幸福，因为娱乐一结束，它们的正面效应亦随之终结。 　　I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to?glamorous?parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells happiness.　　我常常这样想，如果好莱坞明星起到某种作用的话，那就是向我们昭示幸福与娱乐毫无关系。作为个人，他们富有，楚楚动人，可以随时出席令人神往的宴会，拥有顶尖级汽车、昂贵的宅第--这一切似乎意味着“幸福”。 　　But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden?beneath?all their fun: depression,?alcoholism, drug?addiction, broken marriages, troubled children,?profound?loneliness.　　然而，在一部又一部的回忆录中，名流们揭示了隐藏在这一切娱乐活动背后的不幸：忧郁、酗酒、吸毒成瘾、失败的婚姻、饱受困扰的孩子、极度的孤独。 　　The way people?cling to?the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life?equates?happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are?equated?with happiness, then pain must be?equated?with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true: More times than not, things tha