How can I pursue my happiness ? when there is so much suffering in the world?

我怎么能追求自己的快乐,当世上有那么多痛苦时？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So by the end of these three months semester, you are happier than you were before.

三个月后，期末时，你会变得更快乐。

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Why is ice cream worth having? Well, ice cream's worth having because when I eat ice cream it gives me this pleasurable sensation. All right.

冰淇淋为什么是值得拥有的？,因为当我吃冰淇淋时,它给我一种快乐的感觉，好的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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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I think the conclusion is that Mill's theory that when a majority of people are asked what they would rather do, they will answer that they would rather engage in a higher pleasure.

我认为结论是，就穆勒的理论而言,当大多数人被问及他们的偏好时，他们都会说自己更愿意选择高级快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

If you experience a lot of stress in high school and elementary school and were unhappy, generally the best predictor would say that you would feel the same way a month into your Harvard experience.

如果你在高中,初中时经历过很大压力而且不快乐，一般来说最好的预言家会说,在哈佛呆上一个月，你会有同样的感觉。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

There's all these pleasures of experiencing art and seeing a beautiful sunset. And I don't know about you, but at least when I imagine the rat lever thing, it's a sort of simple, undifferentiated pleasure.

体验艺术是快乐的,观赏美丽的日落是快乐的，我不了解你们，但当我想象老鼠杠杆时，那是一种简单，单调的快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

How are in conflict resolution, the dominant theme of most people with good intentions want to resolve conflict is let's get the people together, let's get them to talk, and they and we will live happily ever after.

在解决冲突时，大多数人,好心想要解决冲突,让人们坐下来，好好谈谈，然后就能过上幸福快乐的日子。

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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The next day in class, I used that and I said to the students, "You know, the last thing in the world that I want you to think is that I experience a constant high or that you, by the end of the semester or the year-- it was a year course, you-- by the end of the year-- " will experience a constant high."

第二天上课时，我讲了这件事并对学生说，“我最不希望你们以为,我总是保持快乐，或者你们，在期未或学年未-,那门课程要讲一年，你们到学年未时-,会一直保持快乐“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选