So the pain you're suffering now is actually instrumentally valuable, useful as a means, even though it's intrinsically bad.

所以你现在忍受的痛苦,是有利用价值的，作为手段是有用的，尽管痛苦本身是坏的。

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Bitter constraint and sad occasion are forcing him to write, even though, of course, he's not yet ready.

亲友的惨遇，痛苦的重压迫使他下笔，尽管如此，他还是没准备好。

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But if the balance of pain over pleasure-- If there's more pain than pleasure so that the balance is negative, that's worse than zero.

如果痛苦减快乐-,如果痛苦多于快乐,那么结果就是负的，比零小。

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The fact that it's another person should make you care.

你不应该对别人的痛苦无动于衷。

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Obviously, if the balance of pleasure over pain is positive, that's better than zero.

显然如果快乐减痛苦是正的，即比零大。

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For every bad period here there's a corresponding bad period here.

对于每个痛苦阶段这边也有相应阶段。

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So pain's probably intrinsically bad; pleasure is intrinsically good.

所以痛苦的固有价值是坏的;,愉快的固有价值是好的。

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Diarrhea is worth avoiding. Pain's worth avoiding.

痢疾需要避免，痛苦需要避免。

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