.. How valuable-- how well off you are, how valuable your life is, is a function of the contents, the pleasure and the pain.

生命的价值-,你有多幸福，你的生活有多少价值，是生活内容的函数，即快乐与痛苦的函数。

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It's as though being alive is infinitely valuable in comparison to questions about the contents.

活着似乎有着无限的价值,如果和生活内容相比的话。

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The purpose of new form is not to express new content, but to change an old form which has lost its aesthetic quality lost its power to take the film away from our eyes].

新形式的目的不是要表达新的内容，而是要更换已经失去美学价值的旧形式,不能调整我们看世界的旧眼光了。

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So what is the specification going to do?

这也是很有价值的内容？

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And deciding how valuable it is, how good it is for me to be alive is a matter of adding up the value of the contents of the life.

它的价值，以及我活着的好处,取决于生活内容的价值总和。

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Against that, you can imagine someone who thinks being alive per se is so incredibly valuable that no matter how horrible the contents are, the grand total will always be positive.

与之相反，你可以想象有些人会认为,活着本身有着巨大的价值,不管生活内容有多糟糕，总和都会是正数。

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Because, of course, if you're a modest, if you accept the modest version of the valuable container theory, then if the contents get bad enough, that can outweigh the positive value of life.

因为如果你是个保守者，如果你接受保守价值容器理论，那么如果生活内容极为糟糕，它便超越了活着的正数。

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