The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
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这句话基本的结构还比较清楚,给我带来理解障碍的是“track”,我看单词提示之前不能很好的理解其意。想问一下海豚姐姐,and with it中的it,指的是反快乐主义还是指的大众传媒的出现呢?
And since these messages have an agenda--to lure us to open our wallets-they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable
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因为这些资讯有个目标——那就是吸引我们掏钱——它们……使快乐的理想看起来不可靠
这句话我理解起来很有困难。the very idea of happiness我不知要如何理解,尤其是very ,这是为了表示强调吗?请海豚姐姐指教