Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.
与其得出结论说孩子让父母变得幸福或痛苦，Senior 建议我们重新定义幸福：与其将其视为可以由瞬间快乐来衡量的东西，不如将其视为一种过去时的状态。
Researchers measured people’s cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.
研究人员在人们工作和在家时测量了他们的皮质醇水平，这是一种压力指标，结果发现在家中的皮质醇水平比在所谓的避风港——工作场所更高。
But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students.
但这篇文章实际上相当乐观，因为它概述了解决这一问题的潜在方案，提出一种方法（涉及一个几乎不花成本的一小时项目）可以缩小第一代大学生与其他学生之间63%的成就差距（以成绩等因素衡量）。
Across the 163 countries measured, the UK is one of the poorest performers in ensuring that economic growth is translated into meaningful improvements for its citizens.
在被评估的163个国家中，英国在确保经济增长转化为对公民有意义的改善方面，是表现最差的国家之一。
Rather than just focusing on GDP, over 40 different sets of criteria from health, education and civil society engagement have been measured to get a more rounded assessment of how countries are performing.
除了关注GDP之外，还测量了包括健康、教育和公民社会参与在内的40多个不同指标集，以更全面地评估各国的表现。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。