I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a glamorous1, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.
Many intelligent people still equate2 happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding3 emotion.
Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.
I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells "happiness".
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But in memoir4 after memoir, celebrities5 reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction6, broken marriages, troubled children, profound loneliness.
The way people cling to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates7 happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining8 real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated9 with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true: More times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably10 brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic11 or charitable work, and self-improvement.
1 glamorous
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adj.富有魅力的；美麗動(dòng)人的；令人向往的
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The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍遜，但卻有很多干凈漂亮的賓館。 It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.這是份苦差，并非像媒體描繪的那般令人向往。
2 equate
v.同等看待，使相等
參考例句：
You can't equate passing examination and being intelligent.你不能把考試及格看成是聰明。 You cannot equate his poems with his plays.你不可以把他的詩歌和他的劇本相提并論。
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adj.永久的，持久的，不變的
參考例句：
He had an abiding love of the English countryside.他永遠(yuǎn)熱愛英國的鄉(xiāng)村。 He has a genuine and abiding love of the craft.他對(duì)這門手藝有著真摯持久的熱愛。
4 memoir
n.[pl.]回憶錄，自傳；記事錄
參考例句：
He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他剛剛出了一本傳記來紀(jì)念他的隊(duì)長(zhǎng)。 In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那個(gè)女演員的自傳中，她寫到了自己苦樂摻半的初戀。
5 celebrities
n.（尤指娛樂界的）名人( celebrity的名詞復(fù)數(shù) )；名流；名聲；名譽(yù)
參考例句：
He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀請(qǐng)頭等名流參加他的聚會(huì)。 a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由眾多二流人物 參加的電視訪談節(jié)目
6 addiction
n.上癮入迷，嗜好
參考例句：
He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他從父母那兒偷錢以滿足自己的嗜好。 Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.販賣毒品的地區(qū)往往是吸毒上癮、貧困和發(fā)生謀殺的地方。
7 equates
v.認(rèn)為某事物（與另一事物）相等或相仿( equate的第三人稱單數(shù) )；相當(dāng)于；等于；把（一事物） 和（另一事物）等同看待
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He equates success with material wealth. 他認(rèn)為成功等同于物質(zhì)財(cái)富。 來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》 This equates to increased and vigor, better sleep and sharper mental acuity. 也就是說可以起到增強(qiáng)活力，改善睡眠，提高心智的作用。 來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
8 attaining
（通常經(jīng)過努力）實(shí)現(xiàn)( attain的現(xiàn)在分詞 )； 達(dá)到； 獲得； 達(dá)到（某年齡、水平、狀況）
參考例句：
Jim is halfway to attaining his pilot's licence. 吉姆就快要拿到飛行員執(zhí)照了。 By that time she was attaining to fifty. 那時(shí)她已快到五十歲了。
9 equated
adj.換算的v.認(rèn)為某事物（與另一事物）相等或相仿( equate的過去式和過去分詞 )；相當(dāng)于；等于；把（一事物） 和（另一事物）等同看待
參考例句：
Production costs for the movie equated to around 30% of income. 這部電影的制作成本相當(dāng)于收益的30%。 Politics cannot be equated with art. 政治不能同藝術(shù)等同起來。
10 inevitably
adv.不可避免地；必然發(fā)生地
參考例句：
In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你們這樣下去，毫無疑問是會(huì)散伙的。 Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技術(shù)變革必然會(huì)導(dǎo)致失業(yè)。
11 civic
adj.城市的，都市的，市民的，公民的
參考例句：
I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我認(rèn)為投票選舉是我作為公民的義務(wù)。 The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者協(xié)助促進(jìn)工程的進(jìn)展。
《Happiness Equates with Fun?》添加時(shí)間：2024-12-14；更新時(shí)間：2025-03-09
