调查:多数人一周之中星期二心情最差

    If you woke up this morning thinking the toughest day of the week had been and gone, you were wrong. Mondays may have long been thought of as miserable¹, but we’re more likely to feel down in the dumps on a Tuesday. According to researchers from the London School of Economics, our moods are at their brightest on Saturday, with the weekend feelgood factor continuing into Sunday.
    放松了一个周末后，“痛苦”的星期一即将来到，可是星期一真的是7天人们感到最最最郁闷的一天吗？其实不然。有调查显示，星期二才是一个星期中最让人郁闷的一天，调查还指出，人们最开心的星期六（因为还有星期日等着我们），接下来才到星期日（比起星期六，星期日的我们没那么开心了，因为快要上班了）。
    But while levels of contentment drop when the working week begins on Monday, it is on Tuesday that we reach our lowest ebb². Academics used an iPhone application called Mappiness to log the moods of 22,000 participants over two months.
    虽然调查显示的“一周心情数据线”从星期一开始就已经呈现“下滑趋势”，然而，星期二经过证实才是数据线的“谷底”。据悉，这项调查是通过iPhone的一款应用程序“Mappiness”来针对2万多参与者进行调查的，这项调查耗时2个月。
    The data was collated³ by sending alerts to volunteers’ mobile phones twice a day. The messages asked how they felt, who they were with, where they were and what they were doing. Using satellite navigation systems, their exact locations were also logged – allowing the scientists to pinpoint⁴ the happiest parts of the country.
    应用程序“Mappiness”有就神奇的功能,就是能够“记录幸福”。通过应用程序,用户可以描绘出他们一天的感受(在这种情况下,幸福程度显然是由用户定义的)。通过每隔两天发短信给参与的志愿者询问他们开心与否，同时还运用了先进的“卫星导航系统”来确定参与者的位置，从而调查出全国位于哪的部分的人们过得最开心。

1 miserable   

adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的

参考例句：

• It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。
• Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。

2 ebb   

vi.衰退，减退；n.处于低潮，处于衰退状态

参考例句：

• The flood and ebb tides alternates with each other.涨潮和落潮交替更迭。
• They swam till the tide began to ebb.他们一直游到开始退潮。

3 collated   

v.校对( collate的过去式和过去分词 )；整理；核对；整理（文件或书等）

参考例句：

• When both versions of the story were collated,major discrepancies were found. 在将这个故事的两个版本对照后，找出了主要的不符之处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Information was collated from several data centers around the country. 信息从城市四周的几个数据中心得到校对。 来自互联网

4 pinpoint   

vt.准确地确定；用针标出…的精确位置

参考例句：

• It is difficult to pinpoint when water problems of the modern age began.很难准确地指出，现代用水的问题是什么时候出现的。
• I could pinpoint his precise location on a map.我能在地图上指明他的准确位置。