边沁还认为有一种程序可以测量快乐和痛苦的单位,并以此对人的行为加以预测，而这种程序就是他的“幸福计算”(felicific calculus)。

Bentham also formulated an algorithm called the felicific calculus to measure the amount of pleasure or pain a specific action causes.

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当我们考虑幸福的时候，我们通常想到一些不同寻常的时刻，那绝对喜悦的顶点，而这种时刻随着年龄的增长越来越少。

When we think about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, a pinnacle of sheer delight. And those pinnacles seem to get the rarer, the older we get.

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