The last thing I want to talk about, apropos of the issue of the pursuit of happiness, is that study after study have shown that people who are lonely and depressed -- and depression is the other real epidemic in our culture -- are many times more likely to get sick and die prematurely, in part because, as we talked about, they’re more likely to smoke and overeat and drink too much and work too hard and so on.
我最后想说的是，关于对幸福的追求这个问题而言， 许多研究显示， 孤独和抑郁的人群 其得病与早死的可能要比平常人高许多倍—— 而抑郁是我们文化中另一个真实存在的流行病， 其中部分原因是，如我们前面谈过的，这些人更易吸烟， 更易暴食暴饮，更易成为工作狂等等。