Many people said the problem with general levels of happiness or unhappiness rather, the cause is people have too high expectations.

很多人说,一般的快乐或不快乐水平，是由于人们有过高的期望。

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they spend a lot of money trying to be happy. And

他们花很多钱想要快乐。而我，

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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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The final and the fifth premise is an important one; is a philosophical one but one I want to introduce at the beginning of the course so that you understand where I am coming from, where this course is coming from-- because many people say, "Ok, so happiness is important.

最后也是第五个前提很重要;,是一个哲学前提,但我想在课程开始时介绍,你们好理解我讲课的起源，这门课程的来源-,因为很多人说，好的，快乐是重要的。

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So they are certainly interconnected. However, just getting rid of the anxiety and the depression will not in and of itself make us happy, which is the conventional wisdom today, which is the conventional wisdom "Well,let's just get rid of that depression " and everything will be fine."

就是说他们必然是有关联的，然而，单单摆脱焦虑与压抑并不会,使我们快乐，这一点算是传统的常识，是很多从业的心理学家,“摆脱抑郁,一切都会变好的“

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Research on subjective wellbeing-- the term that psychologists use to capture happiness essentially has been going on for very, very long time.

对幸福的研究-,心理学家用这个词来描述快乐,已经进行了很多年。

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There is a lot of research showing how difficult it is to change happiness based on external factors.

很多研究表明,基于外在因素改变快乐很难。

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