无心剑中译罗素《通往幸福之路》

The Road to Happiness

通往幸福之路

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.

观察周围你认为快乐的男男女女，你会发现他们的共同之处。其中活动是最重要的，通过活动，逐渐形成你所喜欢的东西。天性喜爱孩子的女人，能从子女的抚养中获得满足。

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 u