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。
It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless.
因此，将有孩子的父母的遗憾与没有孩子的人的遗憾相比较似乎并不公平。
Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
不快乐的父母很少会去想自己是否不该生孩子，而不快乐的无子女者却总是被灌输‘孩子是世界上最重要的东西’这一信息：显然，他们的痛苦必定是直接源于生活中那些空缺的、本应有孩子的巨大缺口。
Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.
当然，像《Us Weekly》和《People》这样的明星杂志所呈现的父母形象是极其不现实的，尤其是在父母是像布洛克这样的单身母亲时更是如此。
According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.
根据几项研究得出的结论，有孩子的父母比没有孩子的夫妇更不快乐，而单身父母则是其中最不快乐的。
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。