You can figure Milton asking in this poem Lycidas if it's true: is it true what the Elder Brother said, ? that virtue is always rewarded and evil punished?

可以看出在《利西达斯》中弥尔顿是在问：,《科玛斯》中哥哥所说的，善有善报恶有恶报是真的么？

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So this could be summarized as the law of effect, which is a tendency to perform an action's increased if rewarded, weakened if it's not.

这种行为上的变化被称之为效果律，也就是说，行为倾向随奖励而增加，随惩罚而减少。

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Virtue is invariably rewarded with glory and evil evil is always punished. In this amazing image, it's gathered like scum in some eternal cesspool ! where it's self-fed and self-consumed -- problem solved!

总能获得荣光，而邪恶,总会受到惩治，这是个绝佳的画面，邪恶像是永远堆积在粪坑中的糟粕,只能自生自灭--这样就无可担忧了！

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What's happening, increasingly, is that employees or top executive employees, at least, in companies are rewarded as part of their compensation with options on the value of the stock of the company they work for.

现在越发普遍的情况是,雇员,或者至少是高管,可获得他们所在公司额外的股票期权,当做薪酬的一部分,作为其优秀管理的回报

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And the idea, again, is the kids who don't get rewarded say to themselves, "Well, I just spent time doing it, it must have an intrinsic value," while the children who get rewarded say, "I did it for the sticker. I did it for the toy.

再一次，没有得到奖励的孩子心里想，“我花了时间来做这件事，它一定是有内在的价值的”,而拿到奖励的小孩会说，“我是为了贴纸和玩具才做的”

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