15种不同的快乐，你经历过几种？
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开心，喜悦，幸福。这些情感全都可以用happiness表达。
可是——
收到一封不常联系的朋友的来信，季节变换带来的好心情，与“世界上的另一个自己”惺惺相惜。
一个单词，九个字母，又如何能概括人生中纷繁复杂的幸福呢？
人生短暂，但快乐从不肤浅。
今天英大就介绍十五个各国语言中关于快乐、满足与幸福感的表达。
The joy of being in a usually crowded place after hours. The satisfaction of being inyour school at night, walking out of a mall movie theater into a lobby ofdarkened storefronts.
在没人或人少的时候来到一个通常人满为患的地方，有一种特别的满足感。就像在深夜的学校，或者走出电影院进入一个黑暗的小店里。
Not the eerie stillness of abandoned, ruined places, but the nameless feeling of perfectly alive functional places that happen to beempty.
你并不会觉得它阴森得令人害怕，反而能感受到一种难以名状的充实。
The poignancy of your presence induced by years of consuming cinematic apocalypse fiction, the comfort of fluorescent lights and ticking clocks that assure you humanity is still there, but simply sleeping.
末日电影催生的思绪，房子里透出的昏暗灯光和钟表声都提醒着你——这里不是四下无人，只是尚在熟睡——这让人感到宁静又满足。
The gleeful desire for something, someplace, or someone that is illicit or taboo. Pondrie occurs dashing past 'do not enter' signs and crushing on a best friend.
面对禁忌事物时产生的欲望与兴奋感，比如闯入“禁止进入”的地区，或是爱上最好的朋友。
It is our basic desire to do what others have said we cannot; a runaway train that decries our reason; wailing "I CAN have it all"
想做被禁止的事情其实是我们的本能，情感总像失控的火车一样冲破理智的牢笼，大呼“我可以”。
before we resume control of ourengine, divert our gaze, return to school, forget our love and lust and sitdown to dinner with fellow civilized humans, satisfied that our discretions are invisible to them.
而当我们重获理智，转移视线，回到学校，忘记爱与欲望，与其他有教养的人类坐在晚餐桌上时，没人知道我们做了什么——我们喜欢这种感觉。
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The breathtaking quality of a photo taken: distilling an entire moment's candid emotion, unfeigned reaction, spontaneous laughter, tasteful back-lighting rarely seen outside of Sears frame stock picture; a picture you never remember taking.
照片背后有着惊人的力量，它能记录瞬间的情绪，捕捉真实的反应和发自内心的笑容。
The quality being ever the more dazzling as it hides amongst hundreds of other photos, and pops out while you are perusing your collection - a memory ambush and a startling reminder that while it takes hundreds of mistakes to make one passable photo, sometimes it's worth it.
而一张你永远都不记得拍过的照片，会在数百张普通照片的映衬下显得更加耀眼。你无意中在相册中找到它的一瞬间，当时的回忆全部涌上心头。它提醒着你，要犯错数百次的错误才能得到这么一张照片，但一切都是值得的。
The opulence that no fame or fortune can afford you when you're surrounded by your dearest ones, by choice or by blood,
当你最亲爱的人陪着你的时候，你会感受一种再多名声和财富都给不了你的充实与满足。
something simmering, boiling or frying on the fire, its steam emanating the preamble of the expected cuisine, plates and glassware exchanged every which way, attempting to squeeze in just another placement, just another chair, just another million laughs –
无论是因为情感还是血缘的缘故，那种感觉会让你有点煎熬又有点躁动。就像是在一次热闹的团圆饭给人的温馨，大家推杯换盏，挤在一起坐着，不停发出笑声——
pupils widened, mouths salivating, stomachs growling, and hearts most gratified to be included.
你的瞳孔微微散开，嘴上挂着笑容，胃被食物慰藉，心也异常满足。
The unmatched intoxicating instant when you recognize that it has arrived – legs gleaming under pretty sundresses, the light scent of SPF lingering in the air, fired-up grills making stomachs growl instantly,
你会在那个瞬间突然意识到，已经到了可以穿着亮闪闪的背心裙走出门的季节，你会闻到空气中淡淡的防晒霜香气，被街上的烧烤味搞得胃口大开，
the campfire sounding a unique melody of cracks, sizzles and pops, the screams and laughter of children echoing down every street, crowds of people swimming in the free-flowing liberty of bodies of water –
心满意足的听着露营篝火的噼啪声，孩子们在街上疯跑时的笑闹声，人们在泳池中自由的享受戏水的乐趣，
and organically, in that spell, your state of mind shifts and its cellular subjects now radiate cheer to everyone you encounter, an unbreakable inner habit settling into the Bed & Breakfast that is your summer self.
你的心好像也突然切换到了夏日模式，被这些欢乐的片段所唤醒。你正式走入了夏天。
The epiphany that you experience after years of what once appeared to be interminable affliction, when you come to realize that you were born with the cardinal virtue of fortitude, and but for the existence of adversity, you would have never come to recognize it in your own reflection –
这是你在体验了某种沉重痛苦多年后所生出的顿悟。你会突然意识到，在你身上一直具备着坚韧的美德。
moving forward now with an amulet of credence that though there will still be days where the disorientation is disabling and nights where the sorrow seems set to smother you, you will breathe a sigh of relief eventually, you will live to recount what will someday seem like hallucinatory fiction.
你也会终于接受现实：逆境永远会存在，但它们终会远去。总有一天，你会回首感叹，自己曾经经历过的日子就像一部小说一样虚幻而不真实。
当你在吃一顿普通的饭时，突然想到：数千年前，和你吃着相同食物的人不是法老王侯，就是帝王将相。
仅仅是因为今年的粮食收成不好，他们就可以让成百上千的人送命；他们为了修建自己的陵墓耗费了无数的人力。
但是你却吃得越来越好，在真正意义上“不愁吃喝”。
The comforting acknowledgment that euphoria isn't a gift that can be given or a puzzle piece that can be found when sought after, but rather the flower in your own garden that was able to bloom only after it survived, days and nights, rain and three seasons, sun and negligence.
当你明白幸福不是一种命运的馈赠，也不是神秘的人生拼图，而是自己花园中开出花时收获的安慰。幸福也要经受风吹日晒、四季变换、昼夜交替才能在你的花园中茁壮生长。
You realized that you can't grow a garden insomeone else's backyard and move it into yours – you don't have to go anywhere or look for anything, you just start right here – you plant the seed and let it grow.
它不能被栽种在别人家的院子然后移到你的花盆里，只有你能栽种它。而了解到幸福就在你手中，本身就是一种幸福。
The tranquility you feel the moment you sit down, resulting from an event or culmination of sequential events that recharged your faith in the cards, following what seemed like your entrapment on a sinking ship that couldn't be salvaged –
在你忙完了一堆事，耗尽精力后窝进椅子里的那种宁静感，就好像你刚刚从一条沉船上被打捞上来。
recognizing the fleeting nature of this feeling, like every other feeling, but sinking right into it with the desire for every cell in your being to be rejuvenated by the radiance of hope.
这种感觉转瞬即逝，但沉浸其中之时，身体里的每一个细胞似乎都被希望洗涤得容光焕发。
The pleasure of waking up on a weekend morning, by the device of your own internal clock, refreshed with peace of mind for there is no race against time o rtraffic, the apprehension of deadlines non-existent or postponed,
周日早上起床时的快乐在于，你可以一觉睡到自然醒，不用和时间赛跑的，不用苦恼拥挤的交通或担心迟到，也不用因为拖延症以及即将到来的deadline而感到不安。
the possibility of doing nearly absolutely nothing attainable – pajamas on all day, coffee tasting more like honey than a drug, eating whilst sitting down, a bygone concept on any other day of the week – able to make plans for the rest of your day that only revolve around you and your simplest desires.
你知道自己完全可以一天什么都不做，穿着宽松的睡衣到处晃。咖啡不再是一剂猛药，而是像蜂蜜般甜美，你可以久违地坐下好好吃点东西，规划一下接下来的一天，用它实现你最简单的愿望。
The painful, but nonetheless welcome, cramping of the abdominal muscles following a lengthy session of hearty laughter. Often experienced after spending time with friends, but can also be induced by a good night in front of the TV.
这是一种大受欢迎的痛苦，常常伴随着腹部痉挛和一系列大笑。常发生于朋友之间，也见于一个熬夜的电视机、iPad前。
The tenderness you feel when someone shares an idea, a photo, a song, a passage etc., accompanied by a note that conveys that you were the face that came to the forefront of his mind when this thing first occupied his senses –
某人与你分享一个想法、一张照片、一首歌或是一句话，并表示你是ta第一个想到的人时，你所感到的那种温柔的心情。
that you've organically nestled your way into this other person's cortices so that he no longer just sees remote objects in time and space, but rather a set of associations that lead back to you – recovering you once again from the self-inflicted fallacy of aloneness.
这些事情标志着，你已经在另外一个人的生活中占据了一席之地，ta眼中所看到的不再是当下时空中存在的事物，而是它们与你的联系——而这一事实将你从自我施加的孤独中拯救了出来。
The feeling of putting on brand new socks straight from the packet. Closely associated with the pleasure of newly-washed sheets. But not with newly-bought sheets. They smell weird.
拆开包装直接把新袜子、新衣服穿上的感觉，和躺在刚洗好的床单上一样快乐。但绝对不包括新买的床单，因为它们很难闻。
The experience of hearing a song for the very first time that stops you in your tracks, your ears perked to the immaculate composite of lyrics, melody, harmony, and chord changes as if each constituent part was given life with you and your narrative in mind,
初次听到某首歌就被它打动的经历。它的旋律、歌词、和弦都是你心目中的完美搭配，这首歌在你的耳中仿佛有了生命，同时也激活了你某种微妙的感受。
and now eternally stored in your medial pre-frontal cortex so that years from now when you walk into a coffee shop and hear it again, you will immediately see the associated person, place or memory of your past self in your mind, autobiographical details more vivid than ever.
它会永远停留在你的脑中。当你几年后走进一家咖啡店再次听到它时，你的脑海里会马上浮现出与它有关的人、事与地点。过去的种种记忆也被唤起，细节栩栩如生。
To run so hard for a purpose（catch a train, bus, insulin delivery）that your heart beats right off the optimal fat burning heart rate for your age group, that it leaves your body with an intense déjà vu when you ran entirely too hard in gym to impress your very own Little Girl With The Red Hair.
为了赶车拼命奔跑让你的心脏都要跳得如此之快，以至于它似乎给你留下了身体记忆。而当你在健身房用尽全力跑步想要吸引ta的注意时，你的身体似乎又重新回顾了一次当时的场景，依然会因此心跳加快。
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