Or my life would've gone better for this period of ten years, but then it would've become worse.

或者说我的生活在这十年本来可以更好，然后它会变得糟糕。

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But in the case of severe disabilities, most people are in no doubt that life is worse.

但是在严重残疾的例子里，大多残疾人都毫无疑问地认为,自己的生活就是糟糕的。

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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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It's too bad that we live in this world.

我们生活在这个世界真的很糟糕。

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When people get into real trouble in their lives, it's because of a sequence of bad events that push them into unfortunate positions and, very often, financial risk management is part of the thing that prevents that from happening.

人们总会在生活中遇到麻烦，一系列糟糕的事情,会将人们推向不幸的处境,而多数情况下，金融风险管理,可以防止这种情况发生。

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It could still be the case that we die before life has turned bad.

有可能我们在生活变糟糕之前便死了。

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Well, I think the gay gene is maybe a different example, because you would want to arouse the question, do we think the life with attraction to your own sex is any worse than life without it?

我觉得同性恋基因可能是个不同的例子，你可能想要引出这个问题，那就是，被同性所吸引,这是否意味着一个人的生活就要比其他人糟糕呢？

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But if the contents get bad enough, then you'd be better off dead.

但是如果生活内容极为糟糕，那么你死了更好。

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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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And so even if, you might say, the way my life is going in terms of its contents is bad, being alive per se might still be a good thing.

所以，就算，我的生活内容方面非常糟糕，活着本身也许仍然是件好事。

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Whether it gets outweighed easily, or whether it's very, very difficult and the contents have to be horrible to outweigh it, depends on how much value you think being alive per se has.

不管是轻易被超越，还是它很困难被超越,还是生活内容要非常糟糕才能超越它，这取决于你认为生活本身有多少价值。

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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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Because the next chunk, or perhaps from there on out, it would've been bad.

因为下一阶段的生活，或者说从此刻开始的生活，它将会非常糟糕。

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Life as a waiter, not so bad thinking about it in isolation.

侍应生的生活，单独考虑也没有那么糟糕。

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