"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.

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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？

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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。

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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。

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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。

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That looks like a pretty happy rat, doesn't it?

它看上去是不是很开心

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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？

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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。

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