You must want real life, not mere pleasure of sensual gratification.

为此，你必须将自己的终极目标设定为获取真正的生活，而决不因为些世俗的感官享受就感到心满意足。

People today want fast food, sound bytes and instant gratification.

如今人们需要快餐，需要电台、电视台播放简短片断，还要即刻得到满足。

People who have the ability to reject instant gratification in favor of something better, to follow actions by overcoming addictions, procrastination and laziness, to resist temptations and distractions, are more likely to attain aims and goals.

那些够抵抗住时满足的人，那些够抵抗住诱惑、拖延、懒惰而继续行动的人，只有那些够抵抗住诱惑的人才有取得他们的目标。

Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”

但是Jennifer Senior认为，正是那些心绪沉重的时刻，日后却成为我们欢乐的源泉。

Because, sweetheart, it is my job to teach you about responsibility, setting goals, delayed gratification.

因为，亲爱的，我有责任让你学会履行职责，学会确立人生目标，学会先劳后享。

On the flip side, we also postpone our gratification, our stated priorities, and our happiness, often convincing ourselves future will be better than today.

方面，我们又永远不让自己满足、享有优先权和幸福感，而且还经常说服自己将来会比今天好。

The point is to simply make the conscious effort to engage less and less in this type of instant gratification.

关键是要有意识逐渐减少从事这种及时满足的行为。

You are addicted to the instant gratification of unearned adulation from a group of perfect strangers you insist on referring to as your " Friends."

你沉迷于那些你称为" 好友" 但其实只是陌生人对你的谄媚，给你带来的本的满足。

I needed to work towards my goals accepting that I may not get instant gratification.

我得努力朝目标前进，接受自己不会得到立即的满足感。

That warmth, that sense of deep gratification and humility, came from the realization that, just as they had been the spark that inspired me then, somewhere out there are others I might inspire.

那份温暖、无比的满足和谦逊让我清楚了解到，他们曾是启发我的伟大先驱，而我也像他们样在某些方面启发他人。

There's a quality you shouldn't have a need for instant gratification.

有种品质你不应该需要即时满足。

Every morsel of this last dish was finished, to Martha's great gratification.

这最后道菜的每口都被吃完了，这让玛莎非常满意。

It is an emotion made up of the satisfaction in security, pride of property, the pleasure of being desired, the gratification of a household, and it is only by an amiable vanity that women ascribe to it spiritual value.

它只不过是对有保障的生活的满足，对拥有家资的骄傲，对有人需要自己沾沾自喜，和对建立起自己的家庭洋洋得意而已；女人们禀性善良、喜爱虚荣，因此便认为这种感情极富于精神价值。

There's a comfort in that. And I like the instant gratification. I want to do what I want to do right now. The only thing I know of in life that can do that is drugs.

这是种安慰。我喜欢即时的满足。我现在就想做我想做的事。据我所知，在生活中唯做到这点的就是毒品。

However, the unfortunate consequence of a system that aims to achieve higher justice instead of personal gratification; a system that operates according to rules and regulations instead of emotional urges, isn't always as personally satisfying.

然而，个旨在实现更高的正义而不是个人满足的制度的不幸后果；个根据规则和条例而不是情感冲动运作的制度，并不总是让个人满意。

Now, you might be tempted to set relatively easy small goals, so you can check them off and fill that craving we all have for instant gratification.

而你会被诱惑去设定相对简单的小目标，这样你就以把它们划掉，填补我们对即时满足的渴望。

And we as humans, we are absolutely terrible at motivating ourselves to do things in service to our future selves because we're all obsessed with instant gratification.

而我们作为人类，我们对不擅长激励自己去做为未来的自己服务的事情，因为我们都沉迷于即时的满足感。

She was gratified, if gratification were possible to such a mood, by seeing a similar light in the vicinity of Wildeve's residence a minute or two later.

两分钟以后，她看见韦狄住处附近亮起了同样的亮光，她感到庆幸，如果在这样种心境下还感到庆幸的话。

This is in part because spending time in nature appears to make us less impulsive, enabling us to delay instant gratification in favour of long-term rewards.

这在定程度上是因为在大自然中度过的时间似乎会让我们不那么冲动，使我们够延迟即时满足感，转而追求长期回报。

Martin Seligman: The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to gratification and bypass the exercise of personal strengths and virtues is folly.

马丁·塞利格曼说过：相信有捷径通向满足绕过个人力量和美德的训练是很蠢的。