Some cultures have you going to Heaven or descending to Hell.

在一些文化中,你会上天堂或是下地狱

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Sometimes the notion is that it is just terrible for everybody with actual pain and suffering, and others have a notion of a wonderful kind of a heaven in which marvelous things happen to you, sometimes spiritual, sometimes physical depending on the religion.

有时候一些观念是很可怕的,每个人死后,都要受苦受难,而另一些观念就很美好,有一个美妙天堂,在那里你会有非凡的体验,或是精神上的,或是肉体上的,不同的宗教里说法不同

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There you are at the pearly gates and you look back on your life and you could, in principle, add up all the pleasures, add up all the pains, subtract the pains from the pleasures and ask yourself, "How good a life did I have?

当你站在天堂门口回顾一生时,你可以，在原则上，累加所有快乐，累加所有痛苦，从快乐中减去痛苦然后问自己，“我的一生到底有多好？

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