Contrary to the very popular belief that people who have suffered from hardship in their lives have stronger personalities¹, some researchers claim that hardships can be very misleading. As far as I am concerned, hardships cast negative influences on people’s lives.

与流行的观点称经历苦难的人在他们的生活中有很强的人格相反，有些研究者声称苦难苦难会让人产生误导。就我个人而言，我认为苦难会给人带来消极影响。

Firstly, people who suffered from troubled lives are easily misled. It’s found that while some people may indeed become more “hard-nosed” through adversity, the majority become less trusting of their own judgment². It surprisingly found that early negative experiences make people stronger in late life. Furthermore, the people who had experienced an adverse³ childhood and adolescence⁴ were more likely to come to believe information that is not true. Those people were more suggestible, and easily misled which in turn could affect their future.

首先，经历过困难生活的人很容易被误导，有发现表明虽然有些人通过不幸变得更加“顽强”，但是更多的人变得很少相信他们自己的判断。更让人吃惊的是，他们先前消极的经历使他们在以后的生活中更强大。更有甚者，经历过不幸童年的人在青春期会更可能相信不真实的信息。这些人更容易受影响，更容易被误导，到头来会影响他们的未来。

Secondly, hardships cause pain and misery⁵ to people. When faced with adversity, people can easily get pessimistic and depressed⁶ due to the distress⁷ and agony brought by hardships. Some families end up in divorce and some depressed people even commit suicide or social crimes. This undoubtedly⁸ will bring about a series of problems to society at large.

第二，苦难会导致痛苦和不幸。当我们面对不幸，由于苦难带来的痛苦和创伤会使人们容易悲观和有压力。一些家庭以离婚告终甚至自杀或犯罪。毫无疑问这给整个社会带来了一系列问题。

In conclusion, hardships have direct adverse effects on both people’s mentality⁹ and their perception of reality. Therefore, in my opinion, they are absolutely not necessary in life.

总之，困难给人们的心理和他们对现实的观点带来直接的不良影响。因此，我认为，在生活中它们完全不需要。