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Distance may breed discontent.
和朋友的分離可能產生失落感。
Another reason may be that, when not distracted by schoolwork, children spend more time in front of a screen, which research suggests makes them less happy.
另一個原因可能就是：孩子們一旦沒有了作業束縛，他們就會開始玩電子產品，而這并不會讓他們快樂。
And many extra-curricular activities are suspended, which means less time playing football or hanging out at drama club.
沒有了豐富的課外活動，就意味著孩子們沒有多少時間能夠踢球或是在戲劇俱樂部溜達。
“Everyone needs something meaningful to fill their day,” says MsKnies.
“每個人都需要一些有趣的事兒來讓他們的一天變得充實”，柯尼斯說道。
Unemployed adults are less happy than their peers.
所以沒有工作的成人要比他們的同齡人更不快樂。
Crucially, those children who were on holiday abroad would not have been surveyed, so the ones included in the study were those left hanging around at home.
值得一提的是，那些假期外出的孩子并沒有接受調查，因此這份報告研究的是留在家中的孩子。
As for why Easter holidays are worst of all, one possible explanation jumps out: exams.
至于為什么說復活節假期最難過，有這樣一個解釋：就是考試。
The main ones tend to be in the summer term, so the Easter break is spent swotting up (or feeling guilty about not doing so) .
主要的考試都集中在夏季學期，所以復活節假期基本就是在各種復習之中（或者對于沒有復習充滿罪惡感）。
Steve Jackson, the head teacher of a school in Somerset, frets that the pressure piled on children by exams has “increased exponentially over the years”, to the extent that they may now be damaging to young people's health.
薩默斯塞特郡一所學校的校長史蒂夫·杰克遜（Steve Jackson）十分擔憂各種考試給孩子們帶來的成堆的壓力“這幾年孩子們的壓力已經在呈指數級別上升”，甚至已經到了會損害年輕人身體健康的程度。
Foreign jaunts are more common in the summer; Christmas brings families together in the winter.
炎夏，國外旅游更是習以為常；寒冬，歡度圣誕共享天倫之樂。
Easter eggs, it seems, are insufficient compensation for the horrors of revision.
看來，復活節彩蛋無法修復應試之懼。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
