幸福的密码The Code of Happiness

 Last night, I read the news about a professor who wrote the paper 20 years ago. He did some research about asking people whether they were happy and he came up with the conclusion that happiness belonged to two kinds of people, they are the one who lived in peace and the other was who lived with great achievement. But 20 years later, he decided¹ to revisit these people and he found that the conclusion about happiness he made before was wrong. Most people with great achievement felt not happy because they met setbacks. The professor came up with the new conclusion that the real happiness lies in the peaceful soul. This is the code² of happiness. 

昨晚，我阅读了一则新闻关于一位教授20年前写的一篇论文。他做了一些调查，询问人们是否感到幸福，然后他得出结论，幸福属于两类人，那就是趋于平淡的人和取得非凡成就的人。但是20年以后，他决定重新去拜访那些人，他发现他以前对幸福的结论是错的。大部有着非凡成就的人并不感到开心，因为他们遭遇了大挫折。这位教授得出新的结论，真正的幸福在于心灵上的平静。这就是幸福的密码。

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 code   

n.代码，代号，密码；法典，法规，规划

参考例句：

• What's the code for Tianjin?天津的代号是多少？
• Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。