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你的国家有幸福基因吗？

比如，《幸福研究》杂志报道，尽管俄罗斯人和爱沙尼亚人拥有足够的幸福基因，但他们的幸福得分很低。

Climatic differences were also found to be significantly associated with national differences in happiness.

研究发现，气候的不同也会在很大程度上影响到国家幸福水平。

Study co-author Michael Minkov, of the Varna University of Management, said: 'We cannot fail to notice the high occurrence of the gene in equatorial and tropical environments in the Americas and Africa - and the lower occurrence of [it] around the Mediterranean Sea than in Northern Europe.

研究的作者之一、瓦尔纳管理大学的迈克尔·明科夫说：“我们发现美洲、非洲的赤道和热带地区幸福基因较多，地中海地区的幸福基因比北欧地区要少。”

A spokesman for the journal's publisher, Springer, said: 'Genetics is not the only determinant of happiness.

这本杂志的出版商斯普林格出版社的发言人说：“基因并不是决定幸福的唯一因素。”

'The economic and political difficulties continuously experienced by Eastern European nations contribute to the very low happiness scores of Russians and Estonians.'

东欧国家不断经历的经济和政治困难导致了俄罗斯和爱沙尼亚的幸福得分很低。

Researcher Professor Michael Minkov, of Sofia's Varna University, said that nations not blessed with the right DNA aren't necessarily destined to be miserable – happiness can still raise and fall for other reasons.