For Bentham, all that matters, you'll remember, are the intensity and the duration of a pleasure or pain.

对边沁来说，要记住，真正重要的，是快乐或痛苦的强度和持续时间。

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The thought is, roughly, weigh up the pleasures and pains in some appropriate way.

只需大约衡量一下,快乐和痛苦。

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Bentham arrives at this principle by the following line of reasoning: We're all governed by pain and pleasure, they are our sovereign masters, and so any moral system has to take account of them.

边沁是这样论证这一原则的：,我们都受到痛苦和快乐的支配，苦乐是我们至高无上的主宰，因此任何道德体系都应考虑到它们。

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Which of the various futures that are open to me are likely to give me the better life, leave me better off, measured in terms of pleasure or pain?

也就是向我敞开的各种未来,哪种能给我更好的生活，让我更幸福，用快乐和痛苦来衡量？

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Add up the pleasures. Add up the pains.

把快乐和痛苦分别累加。

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suppose we make for, the moment, the bold conjecture, the philosophical claim, that not only is pleasure and the absence of pain, not only is pleasure one good thing and pain one bad thing.

假设此刻我们做出大胆猜测，哲学声称，不仅只,快乐和没有痛苦，快乐不止是一样好的东西，痛苦不止是一样坏的东西。

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