The so-called "Higher pleasures or nobler virtues" are simply those, according to Bentham, that produce stronger, longer pleasure.

所谓“更高级快乐或更高贵美德“,在边沁看来不过是更持久更强烈的快乐。

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What is the heart but a spring, ?" or reason but a means of calculating pleasures and pains."

除了跳动，心脏又为何物，除了感觉愉快和痛苦，人为什么而活“

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It's not, after all, as though all pleasures count equally or all pains count equally.

毕竟并非所有快乐都是同等的,所有痛苦也并非同等。

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And lying behind this idea, I think, is the claim, the intuition, that it's a presumption to judge whose pleasures are intrinsically higher or worthier or better.

我认为这一观点暗含了一种主张，认为从本质上判定，谁的快乐,更高级，更有价值，或更好是非常无礼的。

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And it works on the principle of trying to figure out how to make your way through the world, how to satisfy your pleasures or, in some cases, how to give up on them.

它试图在现实中找到,满足本我要求的方法，找到追求快乐的方法,有时是去找寻放弃的方法。

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And similarly, pleasures can be longer lasting, or more intense.

类似地，快乐也可以,延续得更久或更加强烈。

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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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You can't just add up all the pleasures and subtract the pains, or add up all the accomplishments and subtract the failures, or add up all the knowledge and subtract the ignorance and deception.

你不能只是把快乐加起来然后减去痛苦，或者仅是把成功相加再减去失败，或者把学问相加再减去蒙昧和欺骗。

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Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it -- in other words, no outside, no independent standard -- then, that is the more desirable pleasure."

这两种快乐中，如果所有或几乎所有,两种都体验过的人，都更偏好其中一种，而且并不是出于任何道德责任-,换句话说，没有外界的，独立的标准影响-,那么该快乐就是更令人满意的“

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