And he suffered from injuries and illness that reportedly led him to take many kinds of pain-killing medicines.

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You take a pin and you stick it through my flesh of my body and I feel pain in my soul, in my mind.

你拿一根针扎我身体上的肉,我的灵魂,我的心灵就会意识到疼痛

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Bentham arrives at this principle by the following line of reasoning: We're all governed by pain and pleasure, they are our sovereign masters, and so any moral system has to take account of them.

边沁是这样论证这一原则的：,我们都受到痛苦和快乐的支配，苦乐是我们至高无上的主宰，因此任何道德体系都应考虑到它们。

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And so we might need to work out various, more complicated, formulas here, where we multiply the pain times its duration and take into account its intensity, get the sheer quantity of pain that way.

我们需要编制出各种，更复杂的公式，以便增加痛苦的倍数，延续时间,还要考虑痛苦的强度，获得痛苦的纯量。

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If I had a competition where I'd give $100,000 to the person who looks the most as if they are in pain, it is a very good tactic to take a pen and jam it into your groin because you will look extremely persuasively as if you are in pain.

如果我在这里举行一个竞赛,谁最能将痛苦表演的和真的一样,谁就能拿到10万美元，那么最好用的一招莫过于拿根笔,狠狠地戳进你的腹股沟,因为此时的你看上去真的,足以使他人相信你非常痛苦。

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