If I've got a gas in a container, the pressure of the gas has to be the same everywhere in the container, otherwise it's not equilibrium.

如果把气体装进容器里，容器内各处气体的压强,应该是一样的，否则它就不是平衡的。

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But the container itself is a mere container.

但是容器本身仅仅是一个容器。

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If I place my container of gas on the table here, and I come back an hour later, the pressure needs to be the same when I come back Otherwise it's not equilibrium.

如果我把装气体的容器放在桌子上，一小时以后我再回来时,气体的压强应该是不变的,否则它就不是平衡的。

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They would bomb it, they would burn it, they would put it in this container inside water, and see how high the water temperature raises and that would give you a sense of the number of calories that it has.

研究人员会燃烧它,放入浸在水里的量热器,然后观察水温上升了多少,我们就对这种食物热量有所了解了

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Well, here we're going to have, of course, more modest and more bold versions of the valuable container theory.

当然这时候出现了，较保守和较激进的有价值容器理论。

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But even in those moments when I'm drawn towards valuable container theories, it's always the modest version.

但即便是在那些时刻,即便是在我赞同有价值容器理论时，我赞同的通常是保守价值的说法。

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We could call this the "fantastic valuable container theory" as opposed to the "modest valuable container theory."

我们可以称之为“理想价值容器理论“,它与“保守价值容器理论“形成对照“

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We could say that what I've been presupposing up to this point " is the "neutral container theory" of the value of life.

到目前为止我阐述的前提是,生命价值的“中性容器理论。

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And even if we accept the valuable container theory, and so we say, " "Hah, you know, being alive per se is worth something as well."

如果我们接受有价值容器理论，我们会说，“活着本身也是有价值的“

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I don't find the fantastic container theory myself-- I don't find it particularly attractive.

我并不觉得理想容器理论-,非常有吸引力。

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I find the fantastic valuable container theory fantastic in the sense of incredible.

我觉得理想价值容器理论,理想到令人难以置信。

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Because, of course, if you're a modest, if you accept the modest version of the valuable container theory, then if the contents get bad enough, that can outweigh the positive value of life.

因为如果你是个保守者，如果你接受保守价值容器理论，那么如果生活内容极为糟糕，它便超越了活着的正数。

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If you're a fan of the neutral container theory, you won't have anything extra to add, because life per se is just a zero.

如果你是中性容器理论的粉丝，你就没有任何额外的东西可添加，因为生活本身等于零。

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That's what you can say if you accept the fantastic container theory.

这就是你的说法,如果你接受理想容器理论的话。

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We've expanded the list of goods that can go within your life, but for all that, we've still been acting as though the neutral container theory is the right approach.

我们扩展了生活中美好事物的定义，但除此之外，我们的观点仍然是基于,中性容器理论是正确的理论。

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Hedonism is a version of the neutral container theory.

快乐主义就是中性容器理论的一种。

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