Question

more than without意思

英语翻译
1.happiness is more than pleasure without pain.
幸福绝不仅仅是没有痛苦的快乐.
2.happiness more often than not ends in sadness.
快乐多数情况下以悲伤告终.
为什么这么翻译的呢?
没转过弯来
我估计我是无法理解more than的用法.

Answer 1

比没有更多的意思。

双语例句：

We have no more right to consume happiness withoutproducing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样，我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。

You shouldn't drive for more than three hours withouttaking/having a break.

你不应该不休息就开车超过三个小时。

Sensory-Specific Satiety is why you'll eat more french fries with condiments than without.

特定感觉饱腹感就是你有调料时吃薯条吃得更多的原因。

More than 90,000 customers are still without power across the region, after last Friday's nor'easter.

自上周五发生东北风暴以来，超9万顾客依然受停电影响。

Engineers have been working to reconnect more than46,000 homes that have left without power.

工程师们一直竭尽全力为46,000个断电家庭恢复电力。

Answer 2

1.More than+名词,表“不仅仅是”.pleasure without pain理解为一个整体名词.
2.惯用语 more often than not,表多数情况,经常.快乐时常以悲伤结束.有点像乐极生悲了.