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And you came here-- Freshmen week, you knew it was going to last for the rest of your life.
来到这里，经过新生周，你知道快乐会持续一生。
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You have to be a happy person because when you're going out,
你得做个快乐的人，因为当你在外面的时候，
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If you want to spread happiness, "Be the change you want to see in the world." By example.
如果你想传播快乐，“成为你想在世上见到的改变“，以身作则。
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I went to see a rich girl I knew. In the morning she pulled a hundred-dollar bill out of her silk stocking and said, "You've been talking of a trip to Frisco. That being the case, take this and go have your fun." So all of my problems were solved.
我去看望我以前认识的一位有钱的姑娘,到了早上，她从丝绸钱袋里取出一张100元的支票说：,“既然你那么向往到圣弗兰西斯科的旅行，拿着这个去寻找你的快乐吧“，这下我的问题全部解决了。
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.. How valuable-- how well off you are, how valuable your life is, is a function of the contents, the pleasure and the pain.
生命的价值-,你有多幸福，你的生活有多少价值，是生活内容的函数，即快乐与痛苦的函数。
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What do you conclude from that about John Stuart Mill's test that the test of a higher pleasure is whether people who have experienced both prefer it?
那么你对穆勒的结论，有何看法,他认为，两种快乐都感受过的人,更偏好的就是高级快乐？
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Welles presented it. He'll say no. It's a work of art. I find it exhilarating. So if you are an artist, you can always have an happy life dedicating yourself to your art.
威尔斯这般表达，他将对之说不,这只是个艺术活，我觉得它令人愉快,因此如果你是个艺术家，你就总能拥有,快乐的生活，全身心地投入到艺术中去。
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In a normal, productive, healthy, happy environment, people don't scream at you about how bad you're doing but they compliment how good you are and that could lead to an inflated self-esteem on the part of people in certain domains.
在一个正常，高效，健康快乐的环境里，人们不会大声跟你说你做得有多差,但他们会称赞你做得很好,因而导致人们在某些方面,自我评价膨胀。
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Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles, and at Heav'n's door Look in, and see each blissful Deity Now the graver subject that Milton is intending at some point to expound upon is clearly an epic one.
埋藏于心底的思想会,冲天而上并到达上帝的门前,往里一瞥你会看到每个快乐的神,现在弥尔顿正打算用更庄重的主题,详细点说就是史诗。
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And it turns out that if you could take it to our own day, there are no limits pretty much to what he can do to gain pleasure.
结果是,如果你把它放到今天,那么个人追求快乐的权利是没有限制的
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I like it when you are laughing and smiling, and having fun.
当你大笑、微笑和开心的时候，我就很快乐。
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He wrote his son in 1704, he said, "I may die tomorrow, but be sure that you have little pleasure if you fail to follow my example.
他在一七零四年写给他的儿子信中说到,"我可能明天就死了,而如果你不能遵循我的的脚步,你是不会快乐的的
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And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."
还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调
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And he asked them, "How happy are you going to be, ?" if you get the tenure?"
他问他们“你会多快乐，如果你得到终身职位“
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You are from now,you'll be hopefully happier than you were at the end of the semester.
到学期末，你很可能比现在的你,更快乐。
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But ultimately, the best way, the optimal way spreading happiness is to work on your own happiness, because then you are leading by example.
但最好的方法，传播快乐的最佳方法是努力争取自己的快乐，因为那时你就成为榜样。
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" And-- "How happy are you going to stay for?"
你会快乐多久“
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So you may want to spread happiness, through your word.
你也许想传播快乐，通过你的言话。
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Do you want to run away from unhappiness?
你想逃避不快乐吗？
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What if you really win ten million dollars, ?" will it actually make you happier?"
如果你真得中了一千万美元，真得能让你更快乐吗“
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So it deprives you of pleasure.
它剥夺了你的快乐。
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What you want isn't always what you get and this leads to a set of reactions to cope with the fact that pleasure isn't always there when you want it either by planning how to satisfy your desires or planning how to suppress them.
世事总难以尽如人意,快乐并不总是在你想要的时候得到满足,你只能通过设法满足欲望,或设法抑制欲望,来应对这样的事实。
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You can't just add up all the pleasures and subtract the pains, or add up all the accomplishments and subtract the failures, or add up all the knowledge and subtract the ignorance and deception.
你不能只是把快乐加起来然后减去痛苦，或者仅是把成功相加再减去失败，或者把学问相加再减去蒙昧和欺骗。
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And you'll probably be happy.
你可能会快乐。
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So, you've got the best possible balance of wonderful pleasures and wonderful, fantastic experiences, since that's all there is to human wellbeing.
你获得最平衡的,美妙的快乐和美妙的体验，因为人类幸福仅在于此。
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So by the end of these three months semester, you are happier than you were before.
三个月后，期末时，你会变得更快乐。
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If you've tried both of them and you prefer the higher one, naturally, always.
只要你体验过这两种快乐,自然会一直偏好更高级的那种。
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You're not going to alter how much pleasur you enjoyed previously, how much suffering you've undergone previously.
你无法改变,从前得到的多少快乐，从前遭受多少痛苦。
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It works the other way as well, because helping others also helps ourselves.
别人快乐你也快乐，因为帮助他人也是帮助自己。
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And he said, "Because if I see you unhappy, " I'll tell them."
他说“因为如果我见到你不快乐，我会告诉他们“
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