Almost 50 years ago, psychiatrists Richard Rahe and Thomas Holmes developed an inventory of the most distressing human experiences that we could have. Number one on the list? Death of a spouse.

差不多五十年前，精神病学家理查德 · 赖特和托马斯 · 赫姆斯列出了一份清单，包含了我们所能拥有的最痛苦的人类经历。排名第一的是配偶的去世。

Number two, divorce. Three, marital separation. Now, generally, but not always, for those three to occur, we need what comes in number seven on the list, which is marriage.

第二：离婚。第三：婚内分居。通常是这样，但并非总是如此，要让这三件事情发生，我们需要先实现名单上的第七条，也就是婚姻。

Fourth on the list is imprisonment in an institution. Now, some say number seven has been counted twice. I don't believe that.

名单上的第四条是在监狱里被监禁。有人会说第七条已经算了两次。（将婚姻比做囚牢）对此我并不认同。