你所不知道的快乐秘笈：拥有健康

　　As Long As You Have Your Health 只要拥有健康

　　Perhaps it comes as no surprise to find that healthier people are happier than those who aren't as healthy. In fact, a report published by the Pew Research Center found that 48 percent of people who rated their health as "excellent" described themselves as "very happy", while only 15 percent of those who rated their health as "poor" said the same.

　　当你发现健康的人们比那些失去健康的人们更加快乐时，你也许一点都不觉得奇怪。事实上，佩尤研究中心发行的一份报告发现，说自己健康状况“很好”的人们中有48%的人描述自己“很快乐”，而在那些说自己健康状况“很差”的人们中这一比例只有15%。

　　After all, it's harder to be happy when living with chronic pain or illness or when faced with a potentially life-threatening condition.

　　毕竟，当人们长期受到病痛的折磨时，或者面临着潜在的危及生命的状态时，是很难快乐起来的。

　　While health is strongly tied to happiness, lack of health is even more strongly correlated with lack of happiness. Of those who rated their health as "poor", a whopping 55 percent described themselves as "not too happy", while only 6 percent of those in "excellent" health said the same.

　　虽然健康与快乐的联系紧密，但是缺少健康与失去快乐的联系或许更加紧密。对于那些说自己的健康状况“很差”的人们，称自己“不太快乐”的人的比例多达55%，而那些“非常”健康的人们中这一比例只有6%。

　　According to the Pew Research Center, health--along with religion and marriage--were among the strongest predictors of happiness, even when adjusting for a variety of other variables.

　　根据佩尤研究中心的调查，健康，连同宗教和婚姻——是快乐的最佳预言者，即便是有其他可变因素在起作用。