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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It's a poem which begins, "I have heard that hysterical women say they are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, of poets that are always gay..."

诗的开头写道，我曾听见歇斯底里的女人们说,她们厌恶调色板和提琴弓，厌恶那些永远快乐的诗人们“

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So people change-- up or down in their level of happiness is a result of their experiences.

人们的快乐水平会上下变化,这是他们的经验之谈。

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His view is man was happy and good before the invention of society, which society corrupts man and takes away from him his happiness.

他认为在社会形成以前,人类是幸福快乐的,社会使人类堕落并剥夺了人们的幸福

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For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping something had been left, Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled.

我的那些可能遭受人们讥笑嘲讽的快乐，那些早已被人们遗弃我却为之哭泣的人啊，如今你们都死去了吧，我想说的是那些依然被掩藏的事实，战争中被蒸馏掉的怜悯。

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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Because people feel guilty about pursuing their own happiness.

人们为追求自己的快乐感到内疚。

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I realize that I'm out of time, and so I'll begin the next lecture by talking about a poem of Yeats called "Lapis Lazuli" written in 1935, in which he talks about the way in which people who build up things that have been destroyed are always "gay."

好像时间差不多了，那么下节课一开始，我们就来,一起讨论叶芝的一首诗，名为《青金石》写于1935年，在这首诗中，叶芝写了那些重建家园,的人们，他们一直很快乐“

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So he's sick of everybody saying they don't want to talk about painting, they don't want to talk about music, and they don't want to talk about poets who are "always gay."

所以Yeats很烦的一点就是,人人都在抱怨他们不想谈论绘画，不想谈论音乐，不想谈论那些“永远快乐的“诗人们“

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