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And very interesting for positive psychologists, those concerned with wellbeing and happiness: their wellbeing and happiness levels were incredibly similar.
让积极心理学学者，和研究幸福和快乐的人，更感兴趣的是：,这些双胞胎的幸福和快乐水平非常相似。
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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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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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Which of the various futures that are open to me are likely to give me the better life, leave me better off, measured in terms of pleasure or pain?
也就是向我敞开的各种未来,哪种能给我更好的生活，让我更幸福，用快乐和痛苦来衡量？
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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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Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles, and at Heav'n's door Look in, and see each blissful Deity Now the graver subject that Milton is intending at some point to expound upon is clearly an epic one.
埋藏于心底的思想会,冲天而上并到达上帝的门前,往里一瞥你会看到每个快乐的神,现在弥尔顿正打算用更庄重的主题,详细点说就是史诗。
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It is wrong expectation to expect that getting into a certain place, getting a raise, finding our dream partner, is responsible for our happiness.
错误的期望认为进入某间公司，获得升职，找到理想的伴侣，就能让自己更快乐。
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You are from now,you'll be hopefully happier than you were at the end of the semester.
到学期末，你很可能比现在的你,更快乐。
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If I'm happier, I'm more likely to contribute to other people's happiness and wellbeing.
如果我更快乐，我更有可能,对他人的快乐和幸福作出贡献。
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If you've tried both of them and you prefer the higher one, naturally, always.
只要你体验过这两种快乐,自然会一直偏好更高级的那种。
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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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What do you conclude from that about John Stuart Mill's test that the test of a higher pleasure is whether people who have experienced both prefer it?
那么你对穆勒的结论，有何看法,他认为，两种快乐都感受过的人,更偏好的就是高级快乐？
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Now I am happier today than I was fifteen years ago when I started. I hope to be happier 15 years from today than I am today.
现在的我比15年前的我更快乐,我希望15年后的我,比今天的我更快乐。
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But more importantly,more successful in just as the currency of happiness and wellbeing.
更重要的是，我将“更成功,正如快乐货币和幸福货币一样。
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Which of these branches that are available to me, the branches of my life story, which is the one in which the future from here on out ?" holds more pleasure and holds less pain?"
我能得到哪些分支，我的人生故事的分支，从这里起步的哪一种未来,有更多快乐更少痛苦“
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Who's to say, a Benthamite might argue, who is to say which of these pleasures, whose pleasures are higher, worthier, nobler than others?
边沁主义者也许会问，谁能说这些快乐中，谁的更高级，更有价值或者更高贵呢？
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How can a utilitarian distinguish qualitatively higher pleasures from lesser ones, base ones, unworthy ones? Yes?
功利主义者何以将性质上更高级的快乐,与较低级，基本无价值的区分开呢，请说？
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And over time,as a result of many of these studies, result of examination result of asking also the right questions, I have become happier.
随着时间的推移，出现了很多这类研究，由于提出了正确的问题，我变得更快乐。
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I think I would derive more pleasure from being able to branch out in my own mind sort of considering more deep pleasures, more deep thoughts.
我认为那样才更快乐,即开拓自己的思维,思索更深层次的快乐和想法。
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People living in democracies are generally significantly happier than people living in dictatorships.
生活在民主制度下的人通常明显,比生活在独裁制度下的人更快乐。
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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 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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But over a lifetime, I think I would think almost a complete majority here would agree that they would rather be a human with higher pleasure than be that rat with intense pleasure for a momentary period of time.
但是就一生而言,我觉得，在场绝大部分人都会同意,他们更愿意做拥有更高级快乐的人,而不是只图一时快乐，做那只享受一时快感的鼠。
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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。
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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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