that by our frame of government, the states which have slavery are to retain it, or surrender it at their own pleasure;
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All right, now, let's take the other part of the poll, which is the highest experience or pleasure.
好,现在我们再投个票,哪个是最高级的体验或者快乐。
Historically, it has not been pleasure or wit or beauty that has been associated with the experience of reading Milton.
一直以来,人们阅读米尔顿作品的时候,感受到的都不是愉悦,机智,或者美好。
And the king would take pleasure in watching the series of events, which would judge whether or not the man had done wrong in loving the princess.
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Can we altogether dispense with the idea that certain things we take pleasure in are better or worthier than others?
我们能摒弃这个观点吗,即我们某些喜好,比其它更好或更有价值?
Why? Because there's more to life than just pleasure and the absence of pain, or so it seems to me.
为什么?因为生命不仅仅是,享受快乐,避免痛苦,我是这样认为。
How does this compulsion to return to the traumatic event in any way correspond to or submit itself to explanation in terms of the pleasure principle?"
这些强制性回到创伤回忆中的行为,有是怎样以,快乐原则的形式体现出来的呢?
The focus of pleasure shifts to the genitals and fixation can lead to excessive masculinity in females or in males, or, if you're female, need for attention or domination.
性器官成为了快乐的主要来源,固着在此阶段,会导致女性或男性,过分男性化,或是导致女性产生对于关注或控制的欲求。
Or do you want to pursue happiness and pleasure?
还是你想追求幸福和快乐?
And the real is that sense of suffering, and that the novel can make you feel things, both the pleasure of humor or the pleasure of beauty, but also that sense of compassion.
真正的东西是种受苦的感觉,这本书能够让你感到一些事,既有对幽默和美的愉悦也有怜悯的感觉,我不知道你们是怎么样的,我是对Oedipa感到同情。
We should be able to try all things, to prove all things, and then decide whether or not we actually like it, whether it brings us some sort of pleasure or wisdom.
我们应该尝试所有东西,证实所有事情,然后决定我们是否真正喜欢它,它是否能带给我们快乐和智慧。
The so-called "Higher pleasures or nobler virtues" are simply those, according to Bentham, that produce stronger, longer pleasure.
所谓“更高级快乐或更高贵美德“,在边沁看来不过是更持久更强烈的快乐。
Being well off is a matter of experiencing pleasure and avoiding or minimizing the experience of pain.
幸福就是体验快乐,避免或将痛苦体验最小化。
Which of the various futures that are open to me are likely to give me the better life, leave me better off, measured in terms of pleasure or pain?
也就是向我敞开的各种未来,哪种能给我更好的生活,让我更幸福,用快乐和痛苦来衡量?
What you want isn't always what you get and this leads to a set of reactions to cope with the fact that pleasure isn't always there when you want it either by planning how to satisfy your desires or planning how to suppress them.
世事总难以尽如人意,快乐并不总是在你想要的时候得到满足,你只能通过设法满足欲望,或设法抑制欲望,来应对这样的事实。
You're going to take this meta-level or higher level standpoint, look down at the pleasure and wonder, " "Is this all that there is to life?"
我们会更上一层楼,站在更高的立场上,审视这种快感并想,“难道生命仅此而已?
Now, if you ask me right now if I would rather experience intense pleasure or have a full lifetime of higher pleasure, I would consider intense pleasure to be low pleasure.
现在你要是问,我是要体验强烈的快感,还是一辈子的高级快乐,我把强烈快感看作低级快乐。
And then at the end of this passage, he says, "So it's a mistake to think that the legislative power can do what it will and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily " or take any part of them at pleasure."
然后在这一节的最后,他说道,“所以,以为任何国家的立法权,能为所欲为,任意处分人民产业或掠夺任何财产,这是错误的想法“
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。
Or actively seeking pleasure?
或积极寻找快乐?
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