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My teenage son recently informed me that there is an Internet quiz to test on

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问题    My teenage son recently informed me that there is an Internet quiz to test oneself for narcissism. His friend had just taken it. "How did it turn out?" I asked. "He says he did great!" my son responded. "He got the maximum score!" When I was a child, no one outside the mental health profession talked about narcissism; people were more concerned with inadequate self-esteem, which at the time was believed to lurk behind nearly every difficulty. Like so many excesses of the 1970s, the self-love cult spun out of control and is now rampaging through our culture like Godzilla through Tokyo. A 2010 study in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found that the percentage of college students exhibiting narcissistic personality traits, based on their scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, a widely used diagnostic test, has increased by more than half since the early 1980s, to 30 percent. In a book Narcissism Epidemic, the psychology professors show that narcissism has increased as quickly as obesity has since the 1980s. Even our egos are getting fat.
   This is a costly problem. While full-blown narcissists often report high levels of personal satisfaction, they create havoc and misery around them. There is overwhelming evidence linking narcissism with lower honesty and raised aggression. It’s notable that narcissists struggle to stay committed to romantic partners, in no small part because they consider themselves superior. The full-blown narcissist might reply, "So what?" But narcissism isn’t an either-or characteristic. It’s more of a set of progressive symptoms (like alcoholism) than an identifiable state (like diabetes). Millions of Americans exhibit symptoms, but still have a conscience and a hunger for moral improvement. At the very least, they really don’t want to be terrible people. A healthy self-love that leads to true happiness builds up one’s intrinsic wellbeing, as opposed to feeding shallow cravings to be admired. Cultivating self-love requires being fully alive at this moment, as opposed to being virtually alive while wondering what others think. The soulful connection with another person, the enjoyment of a beautiful hike alone or a prayer of thanks over your sleeping child could be considered expressions of self-love.
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答案    前些天，我十几岁的儿子告诉我，网上有一个自测自恋程度的测试，他的朋友就刚刚做过。我问他：  “测试结果怎么样?”儿子回答道：  “他说答得还不错，得了最高分!”我小的时候，除了心理健康专业人士，没有人会谈论自恋；人们更关心自尊心不足的问题；似乎当时的每一种心理障碍背后均隐藏着自尊心不足的问题。如同20世纪70年代的诸多放纵行为，自爱癖失控，犹如怪兽哥斯拉在东京横冲直撞一样，正在我们的文化中泛滥。2010年，  《社会心理与人格科学》杂志的一项研究发现，根据一种广泛使用的自恋人格量表的统计分析，自20世纪80年代初以来，有自恋人格特质的大学生比例增长了一半以上，达到30％。在一本名为《自恋流行病》的书中，几位心理学教授指出，自20世纪80年代以来，自恋癖的增长速度不亚于肥胖。甚至，人们的自我也在不断膨胀。
   这是一个代价不菲的问题。虽然十足的自恋者常常表现出很高的自我满意度，但他们却给周围的人带来了困惑和痛苦。自恋与不够诚实和攻击性增强有关联，这一点不乏实证。值得一提的是，自恋者很难忠诚于恋人，这很大程度上在于他们自认为高人一等。十足的自恋者可能会辩驳道：  “那又怎样?”不过，自恋并不是一个绝对的特性。它更像是进行性的症状(如酗酒)，而不是某种可确诊的症状(如糖尿病)。数百万美国人都有自恋症状，不过他们能意识到问题所在，仍渴望道德提升。最起码，他们真的不希望成为令人厌恶的人。健康的自爱带来真正的幸福，提升人的内在幸福感，而非满足于渴望得到赞赏的肤浅愿望。培养自爱需要完全活在当下，而不是活在虚拟世界，揣度别人的想法。与他人倾心交流、独自畅快远足或为熟睡的孩子祈福，这些都可以被认为是自爱的表现。
解析    本文改编自较长的评论性文章，将原文的8个自然段重新整合为两个自然段。第一段以作者儿子所说的一个流行的网络测试提出问题：年轻人开始关注自己是否具有自恋情节。作者结合相关研究调查指出，自20世纪80年代以来，人们的自恋情节呈现不断膨胀态势，且该趋势有增无减。第二段基于前段所述问题，进一步指出该心理问题可能造成的结果。作者从个人自恋给他人带来痛苦、自恋者可能对恋人不忠等具体问题逐步过渡，分析自恋症状绝非个案，而是广泛存在于人群中。基于这一情况，作者客观分析，认为健康的自爱可以提升个人幸福感，如若不加以克制，自爱可能就会不断加强，成为可诊断的心理病症。整体而言，两个段落之间逻辑脉络清晰，衔接自然。翻译时，译者应注意两段之间要自然过渡；同时，译者还要根据文字部分具体语体风格做适当调整，以确保行文自然流畅。
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