【词汇大师】幸福，大声说出来（1/2）

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微博年代，幸福就要吼出来啊。注意哦，大师语速有点快啊。
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本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"How do you think your study addresses the American character and our happiness?"
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"Happiness really does change as you move through your life as a function of age. These sociologists have always wanted to say that there's this sort of mountain-shaped curve as a function of age, and that's exactly what we saw for these two million people. And that's one of the first times that it's been seen."
"There's a couple of other things that we found that are I think a little bit more related to the American experience. So one thing is that we found that happiness follows roughly the same curve as a function of distance from the Earth's equator. So it sort of rolls over and peaks somewhere near the center of the United States, in that latitude around thirty-five, forty degrees la titude.
"And the work week turns out to be a part of this story too. So the weekends tend to be fairly happy and Wednesday turned out to be the saddest day. So people's daily experience is being reflected somewhat in what they're saying. And this is more of a story, we think, for Twitter messages, which we've just started to pay attention to, about a year ago."