What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

  • -- John Kenneth Galbraith 加尔布雷思

所谓高生活水平,在相当大的程度上是由避免肌肉能量、增加感官享受和增加热量摄入的安排所构成的,而这些都超出了任何可以想象的营养需求。

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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

记者对世界的不幸幸灾乐祸。正因为如此,他们常常在令其他人类失望的事件中获得一种不体面的快乐。

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

被动的快乐根本不是快乐。