We spend a lot of effort, a lot of time thinking about it for ourselves as well as for others.

我们投入大量努力，大量时间思考自己和他人的快乐。

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For Bentham, all that matters, you'll remember, are the intensity and the duration of a pleasure or pain.

对边沁来说，要记住，真正重要的，是快乐或痛苦的强度和持续时间。

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I'm really going to be happy for a very long time.

我会快乐很长一段时间。

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We'll say a little bit about Beyond the Pleasure Principle, ; which is the crucial text for our purposes; but plainly apart from the influence of and the ideas borrowed from Freud, you'll find Brooks writing on what for you is pretty familiar turf.

我想花一点点时间说说《超越快乐原则》,这篇文章对于我们今天理解主题至关重要;,但是如果不看从弗洛伊德那里借来的思想和影响外，布鲁克斯所写的对于你们来说应该会很熟悉。

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Yes-- for a while, but not for long.

是的，更快乐一段时间并不长久。

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