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It’s easy to think of the highly self-disciplined as being miserable misers or uptight Puritans, but it turns out that exerting

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问题     It’s easy to think of the highly self-disciplined as being miserable misers or uptight Puritans, but it turns out that exerting self-control can make you happier not only in the long run, but also in the moment.
    【F1】The research, which was published in the Journal of Personality , showed that self-control isn’t just about deprivation, but more about managing conflicting goals. Since most people associate highly disciplined folks with being more task-oriented—they’re not likely to be the life of the party, for example, or eager to act on a whim—the scientists decided to correlate self-control with people’s happiness, to determine if being self-disciplined leaves people feeling less joyful.
    【F2】They carried out a series of tests, including one that assessed 414 middle-aged participants on self-control and asked them about their life satisfaction both currently and in the past, and another that randomly queried volunteers on their smartphones about their mood and any desires they might be experiencing. Through the tests, the researchers found a strong connection between higher levels of self-control and life satisfaction.
    The smartphone experiment also revealed how self-control may improve mood. Those who showed the greatest self-control reported more good moods and fewer bad ones. But this didn’t appear to be linked to being more able to resist temptations—it was because they exposed themselves to fewer situations that might evoke craving in the first place. They were, in essence, setting themselves up to happy.
    【F3】That became clear in the study’s last experiment, which investigated how self-control affects the way people handle goals that conflict with one another. In particular, the researchers were interested in how self-disciplined and less-disciplined people differed when it came to choosing among "virtues" or "vices"—like the pleasure of eating a sugar cookie vs. the pain of gaining weight.【F4】More than 230 participants were asked to list three important goal conflicts they experienced regularly—and then to rate how strongly the goals conflicted and how frequently they experienced the conflict. They were also queried on how they managed to balance the goals.
    The highly self-controlled showed a distinct difference from those with less discipline over their lives.【F5】They tended to avoid creating situations in which their goals would conflict, and reported fewer instances of having to choose between short-term pleasure and long-term pain. The result? They experienced fewer negative emotions.
    It’s a very interesting study. The authors address some of the most important questions in life: What leads to happiness and how can we achieve a life well lived? The answer, it seems, lies in being a good manager. Self-control, for one, may not consist so much of being better at resisting temptation, but at finding better ways to avoid it. "High self-control does make you happy," the authors conclude.
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答案发表于《人格期刊》的一项研究表明，自律并不仅仅指一个人放弃了什么，更多的是指这个人能够对相互冲突的目标进行管理。
解析 该句含有一个which引导的非限制性定语从句。难点在于deprivation及managingconflicting goals的翻译。在对which引导的这一定语从句进行翻译时，由于这一从句较短、结构相对简单，因此可以把它放到所修饰的先行词的前面，用“的”来连接，即：发表于《人格期刊》上的一项研究。depriration的含义一般包括：“剥夺，丧失”，然而在该句中，这两个含义都讲不通，这时我们就需要根据上下文来体会其中的引申义，根据句意可译成“放弃了什么”。managing con—flicting goals可利用词性转换法将managing这个动词译成名词，即：对相互冲突的目标进行管理。
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