Now I suppose it's my reluctance to get into the intricacies of questions having to do with applied theory that makes me prefer to keep it simple.

我不愿意在,应用理论上纠结,因此想把它简单化。

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But if you're comfortable with it, it's the name that I prefer to be called by.

但是，如果你们觉得喊着还顺嘴的话，我还是喜欢你们叫我这个名字。

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Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it -- in other words, no outside, no independent standard -- then, that is the more desirable pleasure."

这两种快乐中，如果所有或几乎所有,两种都体验过的人，都更偏好其中一种，而且并不是出于任何道德责任-,换句话说，没有外界的，独立的标准影响-,那么该快乐就是更令人满意的“

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I personally don't like swings that much and it's the B-/B+ range, so I'd much rather prefer that to a swing from A to C, and that's my reason.

我不喜欢成绩波动很大的,比如B-/B+这个范围,所以我还是喜欢像A到C这样小点的,这就是我的原因

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