"As a union we have been smelling a rat, because if this money was from the donor community, we knew that the money was coming in good time.
VOA: standard.2010.03.04
Couldn't that be a kind of existence that would be forever enjoyable and yet it wouldn't be a rat-like existence?
那样的存在难道不是让人永远享受的,而且并非老鼠般的存在?
If you are a rat and you have toxoplasmosis, you are perfectly healthy except for one thing.
如果你是老鼠,你体内有弓浆虫,你非常健康,除了一点。
There are certain-- you can take a rat and put an electrode in his brain.
有某种…,可以在老鼠脑子里装一个电极。
In Neurobiology last year, we were told of a rat who was tested a particular center in the brain where the rat was able to stimulate his brain and caused itself intense pleasure repeatedly.
上学年的生物神经学课提到个实验,老鼠的大脑有一特定区域,让老鼠自行刺激这一区域,从而不断获得强烈的快感。
This is a normal weight laboratory rat given much more than it would-- could necessarily eat of standard laboratory food.
这是一只体重正常的实验鼠,如果我们给它标准的实验室饲料,即使食物分量超出了它的食量
If you rat someone out in jail, someone puts a contract out on you.
如果你坦白了,你是在自找麻烦
Maybe it would be for a rat, but not for a human.
老鼠也许喜欢,但是人类的悲剧。
A behaviorist might admit that a human can do things that a rat or pigeon couldn't but a behaviorist might just say, "Look. Those are just general associative powers " that differ" Or they may even deny it.
行为主义者可能会承认人类能够做到,一些老鼠或鸽子无法做到的事情,但他们或许只会说,“它们只不过是在一般性联想学习能力上,有所差异而已“,甚至他们干脆否认。
That seems to me to be some horrible penalty you've imposed on me, that you've reduced me from being a human being, able to engage in the full range of reflection, and simply turned me into something like a rat.
更像是,强加在我身上的酷刑,我本来是一个人,能进行各种反思,却被变成一种老鼠般的生物。
And as a result of this, Little Albert grew afraid of the rat.
这样做导致的结果就是,小阿尔伯特开始惧怕老鼠。
That looks like a pretty happy rat, doesn't it?
它看上去是不是很开心
And in fact, you can take the wire, the electrode, and hook it up to a lever and teach the rat how to push the lever and give itself a little burst of pleasure.
事实上可以把电线,电极,连接到一个杠杆上,教老鼠,推动杠杆获得快感。
There's all these pleasures of experiencing art and seeing a beautiful sunset. And I don't know about you, but at least when I imagine the rat lever thing, it's a sort of simple, undifferentiated pleasure.
体验艺术是快乐的,观赏美丽的日落是快乐的,我不了解你们,但当我想象老鼠杠杆时,那是一种简单,单调的快乐。
Why not just put our own orgasmitron hat on with a little-- not rat lever, but now human lever-- with the electrodes stimulating our own brains so that we get this intense burst of pleasure?
我们为何不带上电子高潮帽-,把老鼠杠杆变成人类杠杆-,用电极刺激我们的大脑,获得强烈的快感?
But over a lifetime, I think I would think almost a complete majority here would agree that they would rather be a human with higher pleasure than be that rat with intense pleasure for a momentary period of time.
但是就一生而言,我觉得,在场绝大部分人都会同意,他们更愿意做拥有更高级快乐的人,而不是只图一时快乐,做那只享受一时快感的鼠。
If you put the electrode in just the right place, then when the electrode gets turned on, it stimulates the pleasure center in the rat's brain and it gets a little burst of pleasure, a pretty intense burst of pleasure.
只要把电极放对地方,然后启动电极,刺激老鼠大脑的快乐中枢,老鼠感受到一股快感,一股很强烈的快感。
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