Whether that's right or not depends on just how bad would it be to be immortal.

它是否正确,取决于永生会有多糟糕。

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Yeah, I think that mandatory voting is a no-brainer. It's a dumb idea. It's a terrible idea.

我认为强制投票这事不用多考虑，是一个极其愚蠢，极其糟糕的想法。

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So more life would always be better, no matter how horrible the contents might be.

活得更长久总是会更好，不管生活内容会有多糟糕。

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The thing about corporate America--few people that go to college, like where you are now, and most people in America don't realize how poorly most of our companies are run in this country, with many exceptions.

美国企业的问题是--没有什么人,上过大学，没人去过像你们现在所在的地方，很多在美国的人怀揣着对美国企业的希望,并没有意识到大多数我们的企业，经营的有多糟糕。

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If you delivered Botox all over your body that wouldn't be a good thing, it might not even be a good thing if you delivered it one place in your body, but it's definitely not good if you deliver it everywhere.

如果你把肉毒杆菌素注射到全身,这可不是个好事情,即使仅注射到身体的某一部位,也不见得有多好,不过全身注射会更糟糕

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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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Mr. Carl Icahn: Alright, we have bad corporate governance it's evolved into this. I don't think that Washington understands how bad it is; nobody's really focused on it.

卡尔·伊坎先生：，嗯，我们的企业管理是很糟糕,这种情况也是逐渐发展而成的，我觉得华盛顿的人,并不知道企业管理的有多糟糕，并没有人太注意这个。

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