广播电视英语短句 第 85 课：感到更快乐-1

What makes people happier: money or having happy friends and neighbors? 什么能让人们感到更快乐：金钱还是快乐的朋友和邻居？

Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have found an answer as part of a study. 从一项研究中的一部分，哈佛大学和加州大学圣地亚哥分校的研究人员们得到了答案。

Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler based the study on the emotional health of almost five thousand people.
Nicholas Christakis 和 James Fowler 将这项研究建立在对将近 5000 人的情绪健康研究上。

They used information gathered over a period of twenty years, until two thousand three, in the Framingham Heart Study. 他们使用弗雷明汉心脏研究截止 2003 年的二十年来所收集的数据。

That study began sixty years ago in Framingham, Massachusetts, to learn more about the risks of heart attack and stroke. 弗雷明汉心脏研究六十年前在马萨诸塞州的弗雷明汉开始进行，目的是了解心脏病发作和中风的风险因素。