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Several theories have been offered to explain why the United States is, in effect, a nation of joyless lottery winners.
针对“为什么美国是一个中彩者不快乐的国度？”
The jobless now outnumber the joyless—there is nothing like a drop in GDP to remind everyone how much this much-maligned metric matters.
现在失业超过了不快乐，没有什么比GDP的下降更能提醒人们这一饱受争议的度量标准是多么的重要。
The subsequent recession fixed that. The jobless now outnumber the joyless—there is nothing like a drop in GDP to remind everyone how much this much-maligned metric matters.
随后的萧条改变了这一局面，无工作的人超过了不快乐的人：GDP下降比什么都更能让人们意识到这个可恶的指标有多重要。

No wonder their business is so often done in joyless basements and choked corridors.
FORBES: Back to ICE-TSA
At times, Jackson seems tired, but he never comes off as unprofessional, joyless, or detached.
NEWYORKER: This Is It
Though they are reluctant to trumpet the fact, all the region's governments have started that joyless task.
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