VOA常速英语，以其地道的发音、丰富的时事内容，成为提升英语听力与理解能力的关键途径。它不仅让全球听众即时了解世界动态，还促进了跨文化交流，对于英语学习者而言，是不可或缺的听力训练资源，对提升语言综合能力至关重要。让我们一起走进今天的VOA常速英语听力练习：幸福需要奋斗。

英文原文

If I ask you what do you want out of life, and you say something like, "I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like," it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. A more interesting question, a question that perhaps you have never considered before, is what pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out.

如果我问你，你希望从生活中得到什么，而你回答说，“我希望快乐，有一个美满的家庭和一份我喜欢的工作”，这种回答太过普遍，以至于它甚至没有任何意义。一个更有趣的问题，也许是你从未考虑过的问题，是你希望生活中经历什么样的痛苦？你愿意为什么而奋斗？因为这似乎更能决定我们的生活会走向何方。

Everybody wants to have an amazing job and financial independence, but not everyone wants to suffer through 60-hour work weeks, long commutes, obnoxious paperwork, to navigate arbitrary corporate hierarchies and the blaze confines of an infinite cubical hell. People want to be rich without the risk, without the sacrifice, without the delayed gratification necessary to accumulate wealth. Because happiness requires struggle. The positive is the side effect of handling the negative. You can only avoid negative experiences for so long before they come roaring back to life.

每个人都想拥有一份令人惊叹的工作和财务自由，但并不是每个人都愿意忍受每周60个小时的工作时间、漫长的通勤、令人厌烦的文书工作，以及为了在公司里出人头地而必须忍受的无穷无尽的格子间地狱。人们想变得富有，却不愿承担风险，不愿做出牺牲，也不愿为了积累财富而推迟满足自己的欲望。因为幸福需要奋斗。积极的一面是处理消极情绪的副作用。你只能逃避负面经历一段时间，然后它们就会卷土重来。

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