miserable中等

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

西尼尔并没有得出孩子使父母快乐或痛苦的结论，而是提出我们需要重新定义幸福：不应把幸福看作可以用每时每刻的快乐来衡量的东西，而应把幸福视为一种“过去时”的状态。