你幸福吗？幸福指数告诉你_BEC初级作文

你幸福吗？幸福指数告诉你

日本人大多担心安全问题，而在福岛核电站事故之后，这也是可以理解的；拉丁美洲人民则希望得到更好的教育。幸福指数使得受调查者可以在线上将十一个幸福指标根据重要性排序，从而调查者能发现网民所在国家在哪方面有欠缺。

Claire Cibois and her boyfriend Pierre are walking along the river. They've just been to a museum and are heading to the cinema. She says what makes life good is having some money, "not too much but enough to live on," she says. "And the free time to enjoy life."

克莱尔·西博思和男朋友皮埃尔正沿着河岸散步。他们刚刚从博物馆出来，正要去看电影。她说好生活是需要金钱支撑的，“也不用太多，足够生活就好，”克莱尔说，“还得有闲暇享受生活。”

Work-life balance is one of the nebulous concepts the OECD's Better Life Index hopes to quantify. Americans rank work-life balance as a top priority. But their country sits near the bottom in that category. OECD-head Angel Gurria says that should send a strong message to American politicians.

如何平衡生活和工作是经合组织幸福指数想量化的模糊概念之一。美国人将平衡生活和工作视为最重要的事情，但是美国却在这个指标下排在倒数。经合组织秘书长安吉尔·葛利亚指出，美国政客应该要重视这一点。

"This is a potentially enormously powerful policy instrument going beyond GDP, to inform governments of what people want and what keeps them awake at night," he says.