【文章內容簡介】 rtist. There are a variety of things that matter in such a choice, like the excitement of the work, achieving financial security,having time to raise a family, and so on.
　　還有另外一個原因，使艱難選擇并非是在同等好的選項中抉擇。 假設你要在兩份工作中挑選： 你可以做投資銀行家，或做平面設計師。在這個選擇當中有頗多決定性因素，譬如工作帶來的興奮程度、能獲得的經(jīng)濟保障、顧家時間等等。
　　Maybe the artistamp。39。s career puts you on the cutting edge of new forms of pictorial expression. Maybe the banking career puts you on the cutting edge of new forms of financial manipulation.
　　也許藝術家這個職業(yè)能讓你接觸最前沿的圖像表達技術?；蛟S當銀行家你就能接觸最前端的金融操縱手段。你可以想象任何兩種你喜歡的職業(yè)，但兩者都不會比另一方好的。
　　Imagine the two jobs however you like, so that neither is better than the suppose we improve one of them, a bit. Suppose the bank, wooing you, adds 500 dollars a month to your salary. Does the extra money now make the banking job better than the artist one? Not necessarily. A higher salary makes the banking job better than it was before, but it might not be enough to make being a banker better than being an artist.
　　現(xiàn)在，假設我們能稍微改進其中的一方。假設一間銀行嘗試討好你，在你的月薪里增加500美元。這一筆額外的金錢會不會讓這份銀行家的工作優(yōu)于當藝術家呢?說不準。更高的薪酬讓銀行家的工作優(yōu)于以前，但額外薪水不一定足夠讓成為銀行家變得比成為藝術家好。
　　But if an improvement in one of the jobs doesnamp。39。t make it better than the other, then the two original jobs could not have been equally good. If you start with two things that are equally good, and you improve one of them, it now must be better than the other. Thatamp。39。s not the case with options in hard choices.
　　可如果對其中一種職業(yè)進行改進后結果并沒有讓一方優(yōu)于另一方，那么兩種選擇本身就不可能是一樣好。如果兩件事一開始都同等的好 ，當你改進了其中一件，那它就一定會優(yōu)于另一個。在艱難抉擇中并非如此。
　　So now weamp。39。ve got a puzzle. Weamp。39。ve got two jobs. Neither is better than the other, nor are they equally how are we supposed to choose? Something seems to have gone wrong here. Maybe the choice itself is problematic, and parison is impossible. But that canamp。39。t be right. Itamp。39。s not like weamp。39。re trying to choose between two things that canamp。39。t be pared. Weamp。39。re weighing the merits of two jobs, after all, not the merits of the number nine and a plate of fried eggs. A parison of the overall merits of two jobs is something we can make, and one we often do make.
　　那么現(xiàn)在我們就有一個疑惑了。這兩份工作，沒有一方能完勝另一方，但又不是同等的好。究竟該怎么選擇呢? 貌似有些事情出錯了?？赡苓x項的本身就存在問題，導致我們無法比較。但這也不對啊。我們并不是要在兩種不能被對比的事物間選擇。我們說到底是在衡量兩份工作的利弊，不是對比數(shù)字9和 一盤煎雞蛋的好處。對比兩份工作的總體優(yōu)勢是我們能做到的，也是我們經(jīng)常做的事。
　　I think the puzzle arises because of an unreflective assumption we make about value. We unwittingly assume that values like justice, beauty, kindness, are akin to scientific quantities, like length, mass and weight. Take any parative question not involving value, such as which of two suitcases is heavier. There are only three possibilities.
　　我認為疑惑產(chǎn)生的原因源于一種我們對價值的草率設想。我們不知不覺地認為，諸如正義、美麗、善良的價值觀都與一些科學度量類似，都能被量度，譬如長度、質量、重量。試想一個與價值觀毫不相關的比較，例如兩個行李箱中哪個更重。僅有三種可能性。
　　The weight of one is greater, lesser or equal to the weight of the other. Properties like weight can be represented by real numbers one, two, three and so on and there are only three possible parisons between any two real numbers. One number is greater, lesser, or equal to the so with values.
　　其中一個的重量大于、小于 或等于另一個。像重量這樣的性質能夠用真實的數(shù)字來表達。1,2,3……?！?。 而且在兩個數(shù)字間的比較中只有三種可能。一個數(shù)字大于、小于或等于另一個數(shù)字價值觀卻不是如此。
　　As postEnlightenment creatures,