This is the story of the empowerment of the poet, his empowerment through his experience of a terrible loss.
这讲述的是诗人的力量,他因一次痛苦的失去而获得的力量。
And it speaks to those who are courageous enough to acknowledge that life is rife with pain and conflict, just as it's filled with compassion and joy.
这是属于坚强的人们的,承认生活充满痛苦与矛盾,而并非总是激情欢乐的。
They're prostrate on the burning lake of this miserable new realm called hell, yet nonetheless Satan pulls himself together and begins to analyze, to theorize, his situation.
他们匍匐在这个痛苦的被叫做地狱的国度,身边是燃烧的湖水,然而撒旦还是振作了起来,开始分析思考他的处境。
Suppose we conjecture that the only thing intrinsically valuable is pleasure and the only thing intrinsically bad is pain.
假设我们推测出唯一,拥有固有价值的东西是快乐,唯一一样自身是坏的东西是痛苦。
And at the same time, accepting the painful emotions are as much part of human nature as the wonderful emotions.
与此同时,也认同痛苦的情绪,和美好的情绪一样都是人性的组成。
All right? If I'm gambling, I'm saying, gee, if I'm really lucky, it'll be only on this side, and I've got a little bit of work to do, but if I'm unlucky, I'm scrawed, the past pluperfect of screwed, OK., or a Boston fish.
如果我够幸运的话,目标数就会在这边的,这会大大减少我的工作量,但如果不幸运呢?我就完蛋了,我就得再从剩下的这么大的数组里找了,这很痛苦,因此选中位数是正确答案。
He responds to this grievous loss privately by taking it on himself, by seeking to master it himself, and specifically as a worker.
他私下里对失去孩子的痛苦的反应,是自己承受,努力地自己承受,尤其是作为一名工人。
But it does happen that emotional-- that this sort of empathy does lead to moral concern and action.
但事实是,这种痛苦-,这种移情作用确实会让我们,从道德上关心和关怀别人。
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。
He is abject. He is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery, perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness.
他很卑鄙,他是道德败坏的典型,他是凶残和,滑稽的结合体,背叛了至高的痛苦,但也并不吸引人。
And others would saying in addition to the traditional ideas of keeping these Jewish dietary laws involved, we should add an understanding based on the needs of the planet and the suffering of the animals that are potentially involved with our food resources.
另一些人可能会建议,除了,保持传统的,犹太饮食教规,我们应当理解,地球的需求和动物的痛苦,而这些都是与我们的食物来源有关系的。
OK. Now, fortunately we're not going to start with Turing's six primitives, this would be really painful programming, because they're down at the level of, "take this value and write it onto this tape."
好了,现在,幸好我们能开始讲述,图灵的六个基本类型了,这会是非常痛苦的编程,因为它们只在这个阶段上,“拿到这个结果并写在这一卷磁盘上“
But before he can actually be made present at the actual event of the Nativity, he has to endure something painful and obviously momentous: "from out his secret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire."
但是要想真正能在,基督降生时出现,他不得不忍受一些痛苦,而且是巨大的痛苦:,“从神秘的祭坛外碰到圣火“
Obviously, if the balance of pleasure over pain is positive, that's better than zero.
显然如果快乐减痛苦是正的,即比零大。
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。
And one thing that seems intrinsically bad, one thing that seems to reduce the value of a life, is pain.
有一样东西看似本身就是坏的,它似乎在减少生命的价值,是痛苦。
So the pain you're suffering now is actually instrumentally valuable, useful as a means, even though it's intrinsically bad.
所以你现在忍受的痛苦,是有利用价值的,作为手段是有用的,尽管痛苦本身是坏的。
And the yardstick that we're at least doing our best to apply is one of measuring up the pleasure and subtracting the pain.
我们尽最大努力去应用的标准,是汇总快乐,再减去痛苦。
.. 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。
Because when we see that something is just necessary, we-- it reduces the sting of it.
因为当我们认识到有些事是必然的-,它便感少了我们对它的痛苦。
It's not, after all, as though all pleasures count equally or all pains count equally.
毕竟并非所有快乐都是同等的,所有痛苦也并非同等。
If the balance was negative, you're saying your future holds more pain overall than pleasure.
如果结果是负意味着,未来有更多痛苦,多于快乐。
And the pain that he causes is intrinsically bad.
他造成的痛苦本质是坏的。
And what will happen is as a result, I experience sadness, because that is what I am thinking about, and sadness-- a painful emotion, not a positive emotion-- leads to further narrow and constrict.
结果就是,我感觉悲伤,因为我一心只想那个,悲伤-,是一种痛苦的情绪,一种消极情绪-,导致进一步的收窄缩紧。
This is because I am right."
而你感到痛苦又是因为我是对的“
Gaiety for Yeats seems to represent some reconstitution of mind and body, some experience of their unity out beyond an experience of tragedy and grief.
愉悦对叶芝来说代表着,身体心灵的结合,他们的结合,带来的体验是悲剧痛苦不及的。
MATLAB But there's some things that are a real pain to do in MATLAB.
但是用,做东西是很痛苦的。
It's not that I think pleasure isn't good and pain isn't bad.
我并非认为快乐是坏的,痛苦是好的。
So pain's probably intrinsically bad; pleasure is intrinsically good.
所以痛苦的固有价值是坏的;,愉快的固有价值是好的。
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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