They are given meaning through external circumstances.

外部世界赋予它们意义。

But what about times when your external circumstances dictate what authenticity means?

但是当你的外部环境决定了什么是真实的时候呢？

A brief friendship develops, until external circumstances force them back unto their own paths.

一段短暂的友谊发展起来，直到外部环境迫使他们回到自己的道路上。

Is opposed to happiness which is primarily function of external circumstances.

与决定幸福的外部环境无关。

Additions or subtractions to our external circumstances make very little difference.

增加或减少的外部环境 产生的区别很小。

So genetic genes 50%, external circumstances such as place of residence, such as income, such as weather.

因此遗传作用50%，外部环境包括居住地，包括收入，天气等等。

The second thing that matters that makes up the hundred percent of variance of happiness, external circumstances.

第二个对快乐差异指数有影响的因素是外部环境。

And so, no matter what their external circumstances are, they are able to remain calm and carry on.

因此，无论外部环境如何，他们都能够保持冷静并继续前进。

External circumstances are important: employed people are happier than unemployed ones and better-off people than poor ones.

就业人群比失业人士更幸福，富裕阶层比家境贫寒的人更幸福。

In general, external circumstances make very little difference. I mean, think about your own experience: .

总得来说 外部环境的影响很小 回想你们的亲身经验。

People that are too hard and brittle cannot adapt to new situations easily and are often subdued to external circumstances.

过于坚硬和脆弱的人不能容易地适应新的情况，往往被外部环境所制服。

We ride the wind when external circumstances don't weigh us down because we don't resist them but live in harmony with them.

当外部环境没有让我们感到有压力时，我们乘风而行，因为我们不会抗拒它们，而是与它们和谐相处。

It often is what we want in the moment and depends on external circumstances.

这通常是我们当下想要的，并且取决于外部环境。

And to try to do something when external circumstances make it impossible would have, you know, made me feel that it was a more difficult task.

在外部环境不允许的情况下尝试去做一些事情，你知道，会让我觉得这是一个更困难的任务。

Would be nice. Cannot. Would be nice if we had more control of our external circumstances. But even if we did and many people do.

是很好，但是不可能，如果我们能更好的控制外部环境。当然很好，但是即便是我们能控制。

However, in general, external circumstances beyond the extremes, beyond being homeless on the street, make very little difference, in fact, about 10% of the total variance.

但总的来说，外部环境只要不过于极端，比如无家可归流浪街头，其实影响不大，在差异方面只有10%的作用。

We not only seek to alter nature to our own liking but also to control things we have essentially no control over, like fate and external circumstances.

我们不仅试图按照自己的喜好改变自然，还试图控制我们根本无法控制的事情，比如命运和外部环境。

While it's possible your candles could be snuffed out on your birthday due to external circumstances, you may still possess the innate ability to keep them burning through sheer willpower.

虽然可能有外部原因导致你在生日那天熄灭，但你仍然拥有内在能力，可通过纯粹的意志力使它们继续燃烧。

Also, Liezi observed how obsessed we are with finding happiness in the outside world and that our efforts to achieve it and our clinging to external circumstances make us miserable.

列子还观察到，我们是如此痴迷于在外部世界寻找幸福，而我们为获得幸福所做的努力和对外部环境的执着使我们痛苦。

In 2014, researchers in the Netherlands described it as failing to go to bed at the intended time, without external circumstances preventing one from doing so.

2014 年， 荷兰的研究人员将其描述为无法在预定时间上床睡觉，而没有外部环境阻止人们这样做。