Why? Because there's more to life than just pleasure and the absence of pain, so it seems to me.

为什么？因为在我看来，生活不仅仅是快乐和没有痛苦。

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The pain might be eased if countries with trade surpluses spent more on imports, but they were not obliged to do so.

如果贸易顺差的国家能够加大进口的力度，可能会减轻一些痛苦，但是国家并没有义务这样做。

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He was obviously in more pain than he let on, so I did my best to help him get comfortable.

很明显 他要比表现出来的痛苦的多 于是我尽力帮助他感觉舒服些。

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Why? Because there's more to life than just pleasure and the absence of pain, or so it seems to me.

为什么？因为生命不仅仅是,享受快乐，避免痛苦，我是这样认为。

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But if the balance of pain over pleasure-- If there's more pain than pleasure so that the balance is negative, that's worse than zero.

如果痛苦减快乐-,如果痛苦多于快乐,那么结果就是负的，比零小。

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For one thing, one theory is that babies hear other babies cry, because babies are so stupid they think they themselves are crying; if they're crying they must be in some sort of pain so they cry some more."

例如，有理论说婴儿听到别的婴儿哭，因为婴儿都笨得要命,他们以为是自己在哭;,他们会以为自己哭了，那一定是痛了,所以他们就哭得更厉害”

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Americans use their cars more, so the pain is greater.

BBC: Why are Americans so angry about petrol prices?

If those other forms of execution violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, they argue, then how much more so should this, which may be causing more pain?

NPR: Slate's Jurisprudence: Cruel, Unusual Injections?

Ms. DAHLIA LITHWICK (Legal Analyst, Slate): That's right, Alex, and 37 of the 38 states that currently have the death penalty, this is their preferred method of execution, but prisoners are complaining that it doesn't work, that it's causing a tremendous amount of pain, more so than was present in death sentences using the electric chair or gas.

NPR: Slate's Jurisprudence: Cruel, Unusual Injections?