Insofar as it deprives you of a future that would have been bad, then death's not actually bad, it's actually good.

当它夺走你的,苦难的未来时，那么死亡其实不是坏事而是好事。

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We could still say it's-- how good your life is, is a matter of adding up the goods and subtracting the bads.

我们可以说-,你的生活质量，等于把好事加起来再减掉坏事。

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You think that you're terrific and because you're terrific the good things that happen to you are due to your terrific-ness; the bad things are due to accident and misfortune.

你觉得自己很棒,因为你很棒，所以发现在你身上的好事,都是因为你很棒才会发生的;,而坏事都是因为意外或倒霉。

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People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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If the chance of death would add a kind of zest, then perhaps the ubiquity of death is actually a good thing rather than a bad thing.

如果死亡的可能性增加是一种兴趣，那么也许死亡的无处不在,事实上是一件好事而非坏事。

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It's--life itself is a container which we fill with various goods or bads.

生命本身是一个容器,我们向里面装入各种好事坏事。

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We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.

我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。

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But we would now have a somewhat broader, or more encompassing or inclusive, list of goods, and a more broad and encompassing list of bads-- not just experience, but also these various other accomplishments, whatever exactly that list comes to.

但是我们有一些更广泛，或者广义上的好事，也有广义上的坏事-,不仅仅是经历方面，它还包括各种成就，不管是哪方面的好事坏事。

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