快乐的秘诀:记住美好时光

　　The elusivesecret of happiness could be as simple as remembering the good times and forgetting the regrets, a new university study reported yesterday.

　　快乐的秘诀难以捉摸，但也可以很简单。昨日发布的一项新的大学研究报告称，快乐的秘诀就是：记住美好的时光，忘记遗憾的往事。

　　For people who look at the past through rose-tinted glassesare happier than those who focus on negative past experiences and regrets, according to a new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

　　这篇发表在《个性与个体差异》杂志上的新研究报告称，那些以极度乐观的精神看待过去的人比那些专注于过往不愉快经历和遗憾往事的人更快乐。

　　The study helps explain why personality has such a strong influence on a person's happiness and the findings suggest that people with certain personality traits are happier than others because of the way they think about their past, present and future.

　　研究解释了人的个性为何会对个人的快乐感有强大的影响力。研究结果显示，具有某些特定个性特征的人比其他人要快乐，因为他们看待自己的过去、现在和未来的方式有所不同。