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I would suggest that in the context of Beyond the Pleasure Principle we could re-title Tony the Tow Truck as The Bumpy Road to Maturity.
我建议我们可以在《超越快乐原则》的基础上,将《托尼的拖车》改写为《通往成熟的颠簸之路》
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We are also the happiest students on campus
我们是最快乐的学生，
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Suppose we conjecture that the only thing intrinsically valuable is pleasure and the only thing intrinsically bad is pain.
假设我们推测出唯一,拥有固有价值的东西是快乐,唯一一样自身是坏的东西是痛苦。
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All right, now, let's take the other part of the poll, which is the highest experience or pleasure.
好，现在我们再投个票，哪个是最高级的体验或者快乐。
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We seek it; we have declarations-- national declarations, individual declarations of how important it is for us.
我们寻找它，我们有宣言-,国家宣言，关于快乐对我们多么重要的个人宣言。
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In founding the city, he says, we are not looking to of any one individual or any group but rather to the city as a whole.
在创造城市时，我们不是在找寻,个人或团体的特殊快乐,而是要以城市的整体来看。
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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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We all seek our own interests and soon we join up with a family, we want the family's interest up to a point, but how is this fit together with the needs of the community at large?
起初我们自寻欢愉,不久,我们组建了家庭,从某种程度上讲,我们想要家庭带来的快乐,但如何能更大程度的,满足社会的需求来组建起家庭呢
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And the yardstick that we're at least doing our best to apply is one of measuring up the pleasure and subtracting the pain.
我们尽最大努力去应用的标准,是汇总快乐，再减去痛苦。
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What can help us individuals, what can help our community become happier-- not happy,happier.
有什么可以帮助我们个人，帮助我们的社会更快乐，不是快乐，是更快乐。
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However, beyond just feeling good, happiness also contributes to our life, to our relationships.
然而除了感觉好，快乐还对我们的人生有帮助，对人际关系有帮助。
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one of the answers we should receive would be: " "It is happiness."
我们应该得到的一个答案是：,“是快乐“
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Bentham arrives at this principle by the following line of reasoning: We're all governed by pain and pleasure, they are our sovereign masters, and so any moral system has to take account of them.
边沁是这样论证这一原则的：,我们都受到痛苦和快乐的支配，苦乐是我们至高无上的主宰，因此任何道德体系都应考虑到它们。
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Couldn't it still be the case that as long as we take into account the importance of getting the right kinds of pleasures, then really pleasure is what it's all about and all that it's about? No, I think that's still not right.
它还说得通吗？,当我们考虑,正确的快乐的重要性时，那才是真正的快乐,而且仅为快乐？，不，我认为那还是不对。
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And what I want to do now is illustrate a case study of what I mean by nature constrained and why it is so important for happiness, for wellbeing, for long-term success to have the constrained view of human nature when it comes to our psychology that is.
现在我想演示一个案例研究,说明我所谓的本性受约束的含义,为何它对快乐，幸福，长久的成功如此重要,当论及到我们的心理时,人性受约束观点很重要。
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We learned other reasons why you are not happy.
我们了解到你们不快乐的其他原因。
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One of the sentences that I'll repeat throughout the class is that happiness is much more contingent on our state of mind than our status or the state of our bank account.
有一句话我会在课程中经常引用,快乐由我们的精神状态而定，而不是社会地位或银行存款。
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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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Why not think about creating positive situations ? that will help us lead happier, more moral lives?
为什么不创造积极的环境,让我们获得更快乐更讲道德的生活？
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Still, we might say, but the rat lever is not the only kind of pleasures there are.
但我们仍然可以说，老鼠杠杆不是唯一的快乐。
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And we need to ask in the case of higher or worthier pleasures are there theories of the good life that can provide independent moral standards for the worth of pleasures?
我们要问，就更高的或更有价值的快乐而言,是否存在“良善生活“的理论,能为快乐的价值,提供独立的道德标准？
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And Adeimantus appears to accept that response, I forgot we are concerned with the happiness, the justice of the whole.
而，Adeimantus，却显然接受那个回答，我忘了我们关心的是快乐，整体的正义。
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The fact that our happiness is tied to others, the fact that we are tied to others in a web of empathy-- that's a wonderful thing about human nature.
我们的快乐与他人的相关连，我们通过同情网络和他人相关连-,那是人性的美妙之处。
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So, that really won't do the trick in giving us the best quality pleasures of the kinds that humans most crave-- the pleasures of friendship and discussion and sexual intimacy.
那无法给与我们,人类最渴望最高质量的快乐-,友谊，讨论，性事带来的快乐。
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Those who got it, " "Ecstatic! Happiest we've ever been."
得到的说，“喜出望外，我们没从这样快乐过“
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These pleasures the rat lever machine wasn't giving us.
这些快乐是老鼠杠杆机器无法给与我们的。
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The very motion of our life is towards happiness."
我们生命的主要活动是寻找快乐“
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Let's study the happiest people.
让我们研究的最快乐的人。
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