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The Road to Happiness 幸福之道
There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e. health and a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy. In such cases it would seem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong. We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are. Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable.
很多人具備獲得幸福的所有物質條件，即健康的身體和豐厚的收入，可是他們並不快樂。就這種情況來說，似乎問題出於一種錯誤的生活理論上。從某種意義上講，任何關於生活的理論都是不正確的。我們和動物的區別並沒有我們想像的那麼大。動物是憑本能的衝動生活的，只要客觀條件有利，它們就會很快樂。
In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too apt to be forgotten. People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example.
在文明社會中，特別是在講英語的社會中，這一點很容易被忘卻。人們給自己定下一個至高無上的目標，對一切不利於現實這一目標的衝動都加以剋制。生意人可能因為急切盼望發財以致不惜犧牲健康和愛情。有朝一日終於發了財，他除了苦苦勸人效法他的好榜樣而攪得別人心煩外，並沒有得到快樂。
The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter.
在我看來，人們一直都太過於嚴肅地對待關於快樂的話題。過去一直有這樣的看法：如果沒有一種生活的'理論或者宗教信仰，人是不可能幸福的。也許那些由於生活理論不佳而導致不快樂的人需要一種更好的理論幫助他們重新快活起來，就像你生病需要吃補藥一樣。但是，正常情況下，一個人不吃補藥也應當是健康的;沒有生活的理論也應當是幸福的。真正有關係的是一些簡單的事情。
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.
人是動物，他的幸福更多的時候取決於其生理狀況而非思想狀況。這是一個很庸俗的理論，然而我無法使自己懷疑它。我確信，不幸福的商人與其尋找可能的理論來使自己幸福，還不如每天步行六英里更見效。
詞彙註釋
impulse n. 衝動
paramount adj. 最重要的
exhortation n. 勸告，訓詞
solemnly adv. 嚴肅地，莊嚴地
tonic n. 補藥
philosophy n. 哲學，哲理
