也许第一株植物只是发出了痛苦的叫声，或者是在向自己的树枝发出信号。

Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches.

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为此，对像德国泰坦尼克号这样的痛苦回忆半个世纪的有意遗忘，也许是一个合理的代价。

For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay.

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也许这就是为什么很多人担心没有工作的未来会让人变得痛苦，令人沉闷。

Perhaps this is why many worry about the agonizing dullness of a jobless future.

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While other species," he notes, "may have voice, may have sounds and be able to distinguish pleasure and pain, Logos speech"--logos is his word for it.

他注明，“虽然其它动物也许能发声,也许有音调能区分出愉悦与痛苦，“辩论能力“或他所用的词汇。

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So if you add up, if you try to calculate the balance of happiness and suffering, you might have a case for saying what they did was the right thing.

合计来看的话，计算一下，幸福与痛苦之差，你也许会认为，他们的所作所为是正确的选择。

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Well, if that's right, and if we then realize that there's nothing I can do about the fact that I'm going to die, then perhaps some of the sting, some of the bite, is eliminated.

如果那是对的话，如果我们意识到,我们无法改变我们会死去的事实，那么也许有些刺痛，有些痛苦便消除了。

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