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Work VS Play: The Easter Blues
工作vs娛樂：萬圣節(jié)的煩惱
Despiting Kris Chocolate Russians, Children would rather be at school.
盡管可以吃巧克力，孩子們還是想在學(xué)校待著。
English schoolchildren enjoy 13 weeks of holiday a year.
英國的在校生每年享有13周的假期。
To jaded office workers (and perhaps the Green Party) that may sound ideal.
這對疲憊的上班族（也可能是綠黨）來說是非常不錯的待遇了。
Indeed, few children complain that they spend too much time away from exams, homework and the possibility of detention.
事實(shí)上，很少有孩子抱怨他們在考試，作業(yè)和留校之前花了太多的時間。
Yet a new research paper suggests that maybe they should: for children are happier when at school than during the holidays.
然而一篇新的學(xué)術(shù)論文建議也許他們應(yīng)該讓孩子在學(xué)校里比在假期中更開心。
The Easter break, which begins this week at many schools, is the gloomiest time of the year.
許多學(xué)校在本周開始放復(fù)活節(jié)假，這是一年中最灰暗的時期。
The analysis looks at data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, which has tracked the ups and downs of 40,000 households since 2009.
分析員查閱了英國家庭縱向研究的資料，這些資料自2009年起前后追蹤了40000戶家庭的起起落落。
As children are surveyed at different times of the year, Gundi Knies, the author, is able to compare their cheeriness across the calendar.
每年都在不同的時間段去調(diào)查這些家庭的孩子，作者甘地·柯尼斯（Gundi Knies）就可以在時間上比較他們的活潑程度了。
She finds that younger children are happier than teenagers, and that teenage girls are moodier than teenage boys.
她發(fā)現(xiàn)小一點(diǎn)的兒童會比青少年更開心，而十幾歲的男孩子會比十幾歲的女孩子更開心。
The data offer a clue as to what explains the holiday glumness.
這些數(shù)據(jù)似乎可以解釋假期抑郁（這一現(xiàn)象）。
One possibility is that it is caused by a mild form of separation anxiety.
其中的一種可能便是分離的焦慮。
Ms Knies notes that although children's reported satisfaction with their family does not decline during the holidays, their satisfaction with their friends does.
柯尼斯（Knies）解釋道，雖然與父母呆在一起會讓孩子們感到滿足，然而他們卻也想與朋友也待在一起。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
