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— PAGE \* Arabic 1 — 课文翻译 英美报刊阅读教程中级本 第五版 端木义万 Lesson19 Lesson 19 Its a Glad, Sad, Mad World  主观幸福感  Where you live, as much a show you live, is a key influence on the feel-good factor  你住在哪里，就像你在现场表演一样，是影响你感觉良好的关键因素  By Walter Kirn  Its almost impossible for most people in well-off countries to begin to understand how it feels to live in the extreme poverty of Calcutta, surviving in Indias third largest city in a shack, or on the street with little access to clean water,food or health care.  对于生活在富裕国家的大多数人来说，他们几乎不可能开始理解生活在印度第三大城市加尔各答的极度贫困中是什么感觉，在一个简陋的棚子里生存，或者在没有干净的水、食物或医疗保健的街道上生存。  The filth. The crowds. The disease.  污秽、人群、疾病。  From the perspective of the comfortably housed and amply fed, these conditions sound hopeless, and the suffering they must breed seems unimaginable.  从那些住得舒舒服服、吃得饱的人的角度来看，这些条件听起来让人绝望，它们所带来的痛苦似乎难以想象。  But not as unimaginable as this: according to a researcher who employs a method of ranking human happiness on a scale of 1 to 7, poor Calcuttans score about a 4, meaning they reslightly more happy than not.  但没有这么不可思议:根据一位研究人员使用一种方法给人类幸福打分，分值从1到7，贫穷的Calcuttans给出的了4分，表示他们的幸福程度稍微高一些。  And thats certainly happier than one might expect. The assumption behind this finding, of course, is that happiness, like Olympic figure skating, can really be scored numerically at all and that the judges who score it dont even need to come from the same countries or speak the same languages as the people they re judging.  这当然比人们预期的要快乐。当然，这一发现背后的假设是，快乐，就像奥运会花样滑冰一样，真的可以用数字来打分，给它打分的裁判甚至不需要来自相同的国家或说相同的语言。  Robert Biswas-Diener, has worked extensively with his father, the noted University of Illinois psychologist Ed Diener, to evaluate what they term the Subjective Well-Being(SWB) of people around the globe, from Masai warriors in East Africa to Inughuit hunters in Northern Greenland, inviting them to answer questions about their moods and outlook.  罗伯特?比斯瓦斯-迪纳为他的父亲做了大量的工作,指出伊利诺斯州大学的心理学家Ed Diener,评估