The Road to Happiness
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1 /`>Eh 6yU~^))bx If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family.
#LZ`kSlv4 Jc+U$h4 观察周围你认为快乐的男男女女,你会发现他们有一些共同之处。其中至关重要的是活动,活动逐渐构建起你乐意看到的东西,而且你能看到这些东西慢慢地形成。天性喜爱孩子的女人,也能从子女的抚养中获得满足。
3^\y> Y'P8 `$ Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.
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O>3'ylBQ 同样地,艺术家、作家和科学家,如果对他们的工作满意,也能获得快乐。不过,还有很多低层次的快乐。许多城里人,平日里忙于工作,会在周末的时候自愿做些无偿的园艺,当春天来临的时候,他们将体验一切创造美的快乐。
7)T+!> b#M<b.R) Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
*QVE>{ \r2w@F{C 人是动物,其快乐更多地依赖于身体而不是依赖于思想。虽然这是个鄙俗的结论,但是我却无法怀疑。我深信,不快乐的商人要快乐,与其改变人生观,还不如每天步行六英里。
lc#H%Qlg DuWP)#kg 译于2005年5月17日。
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