It's as though we've been assuming, and I have been assuming up to this moment, that being alive per se has no value.

就像我们所假设的，当然这也是我到目前为止一直假设的，即活着本身没有价值。

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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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I have to change the prototype of this function to say that swap no longer takes an int per se or another int per se, but rather it takes two pointers, two ints, and in fact, it's on the very last page if you're still flipping.

我改变了这个函数的原型,来说明swap不再携带那两个int数本身，而是携带两个指针，两个整型数指针，实际上，它是在最后那页上。

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