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正方翻译论坛 - 资源共享 - 罗素 《征服幸福》英汉对照 登录 - 注册 - 回复主题 - 发表主题 rebeccawwn 2007-01-16 08:43 不知道大家是不是感兴趣，我是想学习一下这本书，就把每天的学习结果以这种形式总结汇报一下。如果大家也觉得有兴趣的话我争取坚持到底！：-）The conquest of happiness罗素论幸福Part I. Causes of unhappiness不幸福的原因Chapter I. What makes people unhappy?01. 什么使人不快乐？Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but in the modern world they are not, at least in a great majority of cases. If you are unhappy yourself, you will probably be prepared to admit that you are not exceptional in this. If you are happy, ask yourself how many of your friends are so. And when you have reviewed your friends, teach yourself the art of reading faces; make yourself receptive to the moods of those whom you meet in the course of an ordinary day.A mark in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe. Says Blake.动物只要不生病，有足够的食物，便快乐了。我们觉得人类也该如此，但在近代社会里并不然，至少以大多数的情形而论。倘使你自己是不快乐的，那大概会承认你并非一个例外的人。倘使你是快乐的，那末试问你朋友中有几个跟你一样。 当你把朋友们检讨一番之后，你可以学学观望气色的艺术；平常日子里你遇到的那些人的心境，你不妨去体味体味看。英国诗人勃莱克（Blake）说过：在我遇到的每张脸上都有一个标记，弱点和忧患的标记。Though the kinds are different, you will find that unhappiness meets you everywhere. Let us suppose that you are in New York, the most typically modern of great cities. Stand in a busy street during working hours, or on a main thoroughfare at a weekend, or at a dance of an evening; empty your mind of your own ego, and let the personalities of the strangers about you take possession of you one after another. You will find that each of these different crowds has its own trouble. In the work-hour crowd you will see anxiety, excessive concentration, dyspepsia, lack of interest in anything but the struggle, incapacity for play, unconsciousness of their fellow creatures. On a main road at the weekend you will see men and women, all comfortably off, and some very rich, engaged in the pursuit of pleasure. This pursuit is conducted by all at a uniform pace, that of the slowest car in the procession; it is impossible