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那位大侠给翻译一段话吧，英语作业！急！！！

The right to pursue happiness is promised to Americans by the US Constitution，but no one seems quite sure which way happiness ran．It may be we are issued a hunting license but offered no game．Jonathan Swift conceived of happiness as“the state of being well-deceived，”or of being“a fool among idiots"，for Swift saw society as a land of false goals．
It is，of course，un-American to think in terms of false goals．We do，however，seem to be dedicated to the idea of buying our way to happiness．We shall all have made it to Heaven when we possess enough．
And at the same time the forces of American business are hugely dedicated to making US deliberately unhappy．Advertising is one of our major industries，and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them--and to create them faster than anyone’s budget can satisfy them．For that matter, our whole economy is based on addicting US to greed．We are even told it is our patriotic duty to support the national economy by buying things．
Look at any of the magazines that cater to women．There advertising begins as art and slogans in the front pages and ends as pills and therapy in the back pages．The art at the front illustrates the dream of perfect beauty．This is the baby skin that must be hers．This，the perfumed breath she must breathe out．This，the sixteen-year-old figure she must display at forty, at fifty, at sixty, and forever．This is the harness into which Mother must strap herself in order to display that perfect figure．This is the cream that restores skin，these are the tablets that melt away fat around the thighs，and these are the pills of perpetual youth．
Obviously no reasonable person can be completely persuaded either by such art or by such pills and devices．Yet someone is obviously trying to buy this dream and spending billions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers，but what is it they are trying to buy?
Actually, the essence of happiness is in the pursuit itself, in the pursuit of what is engaging and life-changing，which is to say, in the idea of becoming．A nation is not measured by what it possesses or wants to possess，but by what it wants to become．

Answer 1

美国宪法授予美国人追求幸福的权利，但是，似乎没人能够说清楚什么是幸福，好像是我们领了狩猎执照，而没地方去狩猎，Jonathan Swift 认为幸福就是上了一次大当，或是傻子堆里的傻子，因为swift把社会看成是充满欺诈的领地，当然，不是美国人，就不认为是欺诈，而我们似乎就甘愿为幸福买单，一旦我们具备了条件，就拼命去追求，同时美国的企业界以强大的势头蓄意的给我们制造不幸，广告是我们一个主要行业，它不仅满足人的欲望，也使人产生欲望，产生欲望之快是收入不能平衡的，因此，我们的整个经济都依赖于人们的贪婪购物，我们被告知；以购物方式支持国家经济是一种爱国表现，看看所有女性杂志，前面是艺术和标语类广告，而后面是药物和理疗广告，前面的艺术是圆人的美女梦，使人的皮肤变得稚嫩，呼出芳香的气息，40,50,60岁，或永远保持16岁的身材，这些润肤脂能够恢复皮肤，这些药片能够吸收腿部脂肪，这些药片能够使你青春常在，显然，不明智人可能就会这些艺术，产品，器具所迷惑，而有的人就愿意每年花上亿美元尝试买这个梦，显然，幸福市场的顾客大有人在，但是，她们要买什么？幸福在于自身的追求，在于生活的充实，生活的向上，就是说实现理想，一个国家的兴衰不是以拥有的财富，和对财富的欲望来衡量的，而是以发展目标为标准的，

Answer 2

怎么这么长啊