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欲望
Desires
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
伤口被刮伤是一种乐趣，但没有伤口更令人愉快。就是这样，在世俗的欲望中也有快乐，但是没有欲望更令人愉快。
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
所以，在媒体给予公众一切想要和渴望的时候，或许艺术应该对公众采取一种更积极的态度。我本人非常倾向于这个职位。
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
我认为在我们这个时代，我们得到的很多信息都是预极化的。小说有一种方式提醒我们，我们实际上在情感、神经、欲望和恐惧方面是非常相似的，所以我认为这是一种很好的方式来消除这种两极分化。
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
如果心所赞同的符合适当的模式，那么即使一个人的欲望很多，它们对良好的秩序又有什么害处呢?
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
幸福在于满足我们的欲望，而在于我们只有固定的欲望。
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
愚蠢使人的欲望膨胀，却使人的能力下降。
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
我不相信悲观主义。如果某件事没有以你想要的方式出现，勇往直前。如果你认为会下雨，就会下雨。
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
如果人们不想去球场，没人能阻止他们。
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
既然每个人都渴望幸福，那么很明显，他对幸福的设想是工作还是享受都不是小事。