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Can Wealth Bring Happiness?
財富能夠帶來幸福嗎？
Wealth and happiness always have countless ties. On the one hand, wealth can satisfy our material desires and therefore sometimes meet our spiritual needs. On the other hand, wealth can also bury our heads in thesand and bring misfortune to us at times. It’s really hard to answer the age-old question “Can wealth bring happiness?”
財富和幸福有著不解之緣。一方面，財富能夠滿足人們對物質的滿足，有時也能夠滿足人們在精神上的需求。另一方面，財富有時也能夠讓我們躲避現實，并給我們帶來不幸。我們很難對這一老生常談的話題做出回答，即財富能夠帶來幸福嗎？
In my point of view, I don’t agree that wealth can bring happiness. I conceive of the two as not absolutely related. Happiness is not something that can be measured by wealth, but by the state of mind. For one thing, we all know that the world’s wealth has soared during the twentieth century, and economists expect it to continue rising in the decades ahead. Does that mean that we humans are happier than our ancestors? I’m afraid the answer must be “no” or “it depends”.
我認為財富無法帶來幸福。我認為兩者沒有直接的關聯。幸福無法用財富來衡量，而是人們的心境。一方面來講，眾所周知，全球的財富在20世紀發生了巨大的增長，經濟學家認為經濟也將在未來的10年里繼續增長。這是否意味著我們比前人更加幸福？我認為不會，或者是不確定。
Whether we are happy or not is determined by our state of mind. Wealth can buy us some material things butcannot free us from sadness or worries. For another, wealth can not bring happiness, neither can poverty. It’s a mistake to assume that wealth will affect everyone in the same way. Being rich or poor, people make choices about how they treat wealth, and those choices can boost happiness or undermine happiness.
不管我們是幸福還是不幸福，這都是由人們的心境來決定的。財富能夠為我們帶來物質事物，但是無法讓我們躲避悲傷和擔心。另一方面，財富無法帶來幸福，貧窮更不會。財富影響人們的程度是一樣的，這是個錯誤的想法。不管是富有還是貧窮，人們對待的財富有不同的方式，這些方式能夠讓我們更加幸福，也能讓我們悲傷。
All in all, the amount of wealth doesn’t represent the degree of happiness. Happiness can’t be weighed by wealth. It has no absolute relation to wealth, but as a kind of feeling in our hearts it only rests withour own mind.
總之，財富不能夠代表你幸福的指數。幸福無法用財富來衡量。幸福與財富沒有絕對的關系，但是作為一種心態，它只存在于人們的心中。
譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，不得轉載。
