Coz the comment that we get so often about this class ? is why would Harvard students possibly be unhappy?

因为我们得到的关于这门课的评价常常是,为什么哈佛的学生会不幸福？

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It's not necessarily unhappiness

不一定是不幸福，

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A man who is living in a polis not doing well, how can he be happy? There's just no way.

一个生活在城邦里的人没有做好本分,他怎么会幸福,这是不可能的事情

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Happiness is not a binary either-or, zero-one-- either I'm happy or I'm unhappy.

幸福不是二进制的非此即彼，0或-,要么幸福要么不幸福。

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And if we had more time we could spell out rival theories of well-being, which could be interestingly distinguished one from another in terms of how they answer the question, ?" "What's missing from the experience machine?"

如果我们有更多的时间,我们可以谈谈幸福的各种理论，有意思的是，它们各不相同,他们对这个问题的答案不同，即“体验机器里缺少了什么“

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People in serious accidents with their paralysis as the result of the accident, very often, usually-- again, this is all the average-- go back to their base level of happiness: if they are happy before, they will be happy one year after; if they are unhappy, they will remain unhappy.

遇到严重意外的人,意外导致瘫痪，经常地，一般性的…,再次强调，这是平均而言-,都会恢复到基础幸福水平：,他们以前是快乐的，一年后，他们也会快乐;,如果不快乐，将维持不快乐。

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And I mentioned three reasons, Why we need it as an independent field as opposed to just being " "well,let's do some studies on happiness,on relationships" ? as it is always being done?

我提到了三个原因，为何我们把它作为独立的研究，而不简单地,“研究一下幸福和爱情“,不像一贯人们所做的那样？

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Because there is a lot of research that shows when we praise people indiscriminately, we are actually in the long run potentially hurting them more than helping them, whether it's their wellbeing,as well as their success.

因为有很多研究显示,当我们不加区别地赞扬别人，我们实际上是在长期地,默默地伤害他们，而非帮助他们，无论是对他们的幸福感，还是成功。

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