When it emerged towards the end of the 1980s as a purely text-based medium, it was seen as a tool to pursue knowledge, not pleasure.

20世纪80年代末，当它作为一种纯文本媒介出现时，它被视为一种追求知识而非快乐的工具。

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It also teaches you food is fuel in the first place, not pleasure.

如是，则君亦知此第一要旨：食者，能源之需也，而非口实之欢也。

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Contrary to Bentham, the “sovereign masters that determine what people will do are not pleasure and pain, but fallible memories of pleasure and pain.”

与边沁相反，“决定人们做什么的权力主宰并不是快乐和痛苦，而是会犯错误的对快乐和痛苦的记忆。”

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And the king would take pleasure in watching the series of events, which would judge whether or not the man had done wrong in loving the princess.

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Historically, it has not been pleasure or wit or beauty that has been associated with the experience of reading Milton.

一直以来，人们阅读米尔顿作品的时候,感受到的都不是愉悦，机智，或者美好。

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Ulysses is not difficult to read, and it richly rewards each reader in wisdom and pleasure.

尤利西斯》不难读，它会给每位读者以智慧和愉悦。

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Meeting him is not a pleasure in any sense of the world.

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Maybe a better analogy than soccer is baseball that ying and yang of launching the ball and the equal if not greater pleasure of having it land in the center of your mitt with a satisfying pop.

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And watching him with such intensity, at such close range, is not an unmixed pleasure.

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