你所不知道的快乐秘笈：努力工作

　　He Works Hard for His Happiness 为了幸福，努力工作

　　Does working make you unhappy or happy? The answer: It depends. Toiling away at a job you hate may eat away at your happiness over time. But overall, being unemployed is worse for your state of mind than being employed--at least, that is, if you're a guy.

　　工作能为你带来幸福还是不幸？答案是：视情况而定。埋头苦干一项你痛恨的工作可能会逐渐侵蚀你的快乐。但是总体来说，失业比不失业更影响一个人的精神状态——至少，换句话说，如果你是个男性的话。

　　The Pew Research Center found that the percentage of men who said they were "very happy" was significantly lower for unemployed men (16 percent) than for employed men (37 percent). Unemployment had little impact on women's happiness.

　　佩尤研究中心(Pew Research Center)发现失业男性说他们“非常快乐”的比率(16%)要远低于从业男性(37%)。然而，失业对于女性快乐指数的影响微乎其微。

　　The Pew researchers speculate that this is because more women than men are unemployed by choice, although the study didn't attempt to tease apart that difference.

　　佩尤的研究人员推测，那是因为比起男性，更多的女性选择赋闲在家，尽管该研究并不想对这种差别进行嘲讽。

　　Chris Peterson, a happiness researcher at the University of Michigan, suspects there are other factors at play as well. "Other studies have found that if a man loses his job, it can have both short-term and long-term psychological effects, even if he finds another job with equal salary," he says. "For women it's not unemployment that leads to unhappiness, but divorce."

　　密歇根大学的快乐问题研究专家克里斯·彼得斯猜想应该还有其他要素在起作用。“其他的研究发现，如果一名男性丢掉了他的工作，即使他找到了相同薪水的另一份工作，都可能给他带来短期和长期的心理影响，”他指出，“对女性来说，导致不快乐的因素并非失业，而是

　　In addition, Peterson stresses that money matters less than you'd think. "The engaged custodian is more likely to be happy than the independently wealthy, unengaged millionaire," he says. "We didn't evolve to be retired and sit on the couch."

　　此外，彼得斯强调金钱对幸福的影响不像人们想象的那么大。他声称，“忙碌的管理者可能比独立富有的、无所事事的百万富翁更加快乐。我们进化不是为了自己闲下来或躺在沙发上享受。”