Ben Hassine Lassaad, the secretary general of the Tunisian Writers Syndicate, says that his membership is facing a crisis, "We can't deny that we have writers who aren't working,"he said, writers who are suffering from poverty, writers without social security, without housing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

I'm talking about trying to prevent suffering and prompt for people who don't want to going on living themselves or in the case of babies allowing parents to make that judgment for themselves and their family.

我所做的是为了防止痛苦,或是帮助那些不愿,活下去的人们,或是让上述例子中的孩子的父母,能够作出决定，为他们自己，也为这个家庭。

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Would they say that you're just glorifying suffering, you're just relishing in it and you don't want help these people?

或许有人说，你只是在美化受苦而已，不过是添油加醋地赞美它而已,根本就是不想帮助别人？

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People lived shorter lives and so they didn't get far enough into the age span to suffer from the chronic diseases that people are suffering more today.

当时的人寿命比较短所以他们,活不到现代人那么长,长得足以患上那些慢性疾病

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Now,I don't in any way want to belittle the importance of the pain and suffering that happen for the rest of us when somebody that we care about dies.

我不想对我们在乎的人过世时,我们所经历的伤痛进行贬低。

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I don't know these things personally, but it's my understanding that the whole structure is suffering some moral hazard problems and that they're evolving and trying to improve the institutions.

我没有亲身考察过，但我的理解是,这整个体系遭遇着道德风险的挑战,并且人们不断改进,尝试着改善机制。

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Many people in this room are currently suffering from a mood disorder, an anxiety disorder or both, and I won't ask for a show of hands but I know a lot of people in this room are on some form of medication for this disorder.

这个教室中的许多人,都正在遭受心境障碍,焦虑障碍,或是同时受到两者的困扰,我不会让你们举手示意,但是我知道,这里的许多人都正在使用药物,治疗这些心理障碍

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and in fact in art and in religion, if I don't recognize my pain and confusion and suffering, it is not, in my words, self-vific.

事实上，在艺术和宗教中，如果我不面对我的痛苦，疑惑和苦难，那么艺术就不是，用我的话讲，有现实意义的。

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The idea that emerged the memory of the '81-82 recession is very strong in our imagination because we think that it was caused by lax monetary policy by liberal thinking by the soft-hearted liberals who just didn't want to create any pain and suffering.

出现的观点,在我们的想象中,81-82年的经济衰退很严重,因为我们认为它是由于,松懈的货币政策，不拘一格的思想,那些仁慈的不想制造任何痛苦和疲劳的,自由主义者引发的。

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