"The quantity of pleasure being equal, pushpin is as good as poetry."

只要快乐的总量相等针戏与诗一样好
What was pushpin?

什么是针戏
It was some kind of a child's game, like tiddlywinks.

是当时一种儿童游戏类似挑圆片游戏
"Pushpin is as good as poetry", Bentham says.

针戏与诗一样好边沁说
And lying behind this idea, I think, is the claim, the intuition,

我认为这一观点暗含了一种主张
that it's a presumption to judge whose pleasures

认为从本质上判定谁的快乐
are intrinsically higher or worthier or better.

更高级更有价值或更好是非常无礼的
And there is something attractive in this refusal to judge.

这种拒绝比较快乐的观点确有迷人之处
After all, some people like Mozart,others Madonna.

毕竟有人喜欢莫扎特有人喜欢麦当娜
Some people like ballet, others bowling.

有人喜欢芭蕾有人喜欢保龄球
Who's to say, a Benthamite might argue,

边沁主义者也许会问
who is to say which of these pleasures, whose pleasures are higher,

谁能说这些快乐中谁的更高级