【正文】 e same neighborhood of value, in the same league of value, while at the same time being very different in kind of value. Thatamp。39。s why the choice is hard.
　　當(dāng)所有選項(xiàng)等價時，你的選擇就變得極為重要，但選項(xiàng)本身卻沒有哪個比其他的好。反之，所有的選擇項(xiàng)都有類似的價值，都處于同一種價值范疇當(dāng)中，但同時他們又具有不同的價值。這正是讓選擇變得困難的原因。
　　Understanding hard choices in this way uncovers something about ourselves we didnamp。39。t know. Each of us has the power to create reasons. Imagine a world in which every choice you face is an easy choice, that is, thereamp。39。s always a best alternative. If thereamp。39。s a best alternative, then thatamp。39。s the one you should choose,because part of being rational is doing the better thing rather than the worse thing, choosing what you have most reason to choose.
　　如此理解艱難抉擇，我們就會在自己身上發(fā)現(xiàn)一些意料之外的東西。我們每個人都有能力去創(chuàng)造理由。想象一下若在某個世界中你只需面對簡單抉擇，那么，永遠(yuǎn)都有最佳項(xiàng)。若有最佳項(xiàng)，你就應(yīng)該選它，因?yàn)楸３掷碇蔷鸵馕吨x好的不選壞的，選最合理的。
　　In such a world, weamp。39。d have most reason to wear black socks instead of pink socks,to eat cereal instead of donuts, to live in the city rather than the country, to marry Betty instead of Lolita. A world full of only easy choices would enslave us to reasons.
　　在這樣的世界里，我們有充足的理由去穿黑襪子而不穿粉色襪子，去吃干麥片不吃甜甜圈，去留在城市里不轉(zhuǎn)向鄉(xiāng)區(qū)，去娶Betty而不娶Lolita。充滿簡單抉擇的世界，會讓我們成為”。原由”。的奴隸。
　　When you think about it,itamp。39。s nuts to believe that the reasons given to you dictated that you had most reason to pursue the exact hobbies you do, to live in the exact house you do, to work at the exact job you do. Instead, you faced alternatives that were on a par hard choices and you made reasons for yourself to choose that hobby, that house and that job.
　　當(dāng)你這樣想，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己一定是瘋了才會相信 擺在你面前的選擇會決定你追尋各種事物的理由，會決定你的愛好，讓你住現(xiàn)在的房子，讓你選現(xiàn)在的工作。事實(shí)上，當(dāng)你面對的是多個選擇，多個等價的選擇，困難的選擇，你會為自己制造理由來選擇這項(xiàng)愛好、這所房子和這份工作。
　　When alternatives are on a par, the reasons given to us, the ones that determine whether weamp。39。re making a mistake, are silent as to what to do. Itamp。39。s here, in the space of hard choices, that we get to exercise our normative power the power to create reasons for yourself, to make yourself into the kind of person for whom country living is preferable to the urban life.
　　當(dāng)各選項(xiàng)等價時， 我們面前的各種理性原由， 這些讓我們分清對錯的原由， 都無法給予我們一個答案。 唯有在這個有艱難抉擇的世界里， 我們才能鍛煉自己的 規(guī)范性力量，以創(chuàng)造自我的原由， 讓自己變成 心中想成為的人， 一種更喜愛鄉(xiāng)村生活而不是城市生活的人。
　　When we choose between options that are on a par, we can do something really rather remarkable. We can put our very selves behind an option. Hereamp。39。s where I stand. Hereamp。39。s who I am, I am for banking. I am for chocolate donuts.
　　當(dāng)我們需要在等價選項(xiàng)間抉擇時，我們能做出一些十分了不起的事。我們能把自身放在一個選項(xiàng)之后。(說道)這就是我的選擇，這就是我。我選銀行業(yè)。我選巧克力甜甜圈。
　　This response in hard choices is a rational response, but itamp。39。s not dictated by reasons given to us. Rather, itamp。39。s supported by reasons created by us. When we create reasons for ourselves to bee this kind of person rather than that, we wholeheartedly bee the people that we are. You might say that we bee the authors of our own lives.
　　在艱難抉擇中，這種反應(yīng)是一種理性反應(yīng)，但卻不是由我們面前的各種原由所決定的。反而，這是由我們自己創(chuàng)造的理由所支撐起來的。當(dāng)我們?yōu)樽晕覄?chuàng)造原由去成為這種人而非那種人時，我們就打心底里完完全全地成就了真正的自己。你可以說，我們成了譜寫自我人生篇章的作者。
　　So when we face hard choices, we shouldnamp。39。t beat our head against a wall trying to figure out which alternative is better. There is no best alternative. Instead of looking for reasons out there, we should be looking for reasons in here: Who am I to be? You might decide to be a pink sockwearing, cerealloving, countryliving banker, and I might decide to be a black sockwearing, urban, donutloving artist. What we do in hard choices is very much up to each of us.
　　所以當(dāng)面對艱難抉擇，不應(yīng)該拿腦袋撞墻絞盡腦汁地去想哪個選項(xiàng)更優(yōu)。最佳項(xiàng)并不存在。與其在外界苦命尋找理由，我們該往心里找： 我想成為什么樣的人?你可能會決定成為一個穿粉色襪子、愛好干麥片，還住在鄉(xiāng)村的銀行家。而我可能會決定成為一個穿黑襪子，住在城市里，喜歡吃甜甜圈的藝術(shù)家。面臨艱難抉擇時的反應(yīng)很大程度上