And that allows the dentist to improve your gums, which avoids more pain down the road.

从而允许牙医治疗你的牙周炎，避免以后越来越痛。

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The pain of stubbing your toe obviously doesn't count for nearly as much as the pain of a migraine, which doesn't count nearly as the pain of being tortured.

踩到脚趾的痛苦,远不及偏头痛严重，偏头痛的痛苦远不及被折磨的痛苦。

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Sometimes the notion is that it is just terrible for everybody with actual pain and suffering, and others have a notion of a wonderful kind of a heaven in which marvelous things happen to you, sometimes spiritual, sometimes physical depending on the religion.

有时候一些观念是很可怕的,每个人死后,都要受苦受难,而另一些观念就很美好,有一个美妙天堂,在那里你会有非凡的体验,或是精神上的,或是肉体上的,不同的宗教里说法不同

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Which of these branches that are available to me, the branches of my life story, which is the one in which the future from here on out ?" holds more pleasure and holds less pain?"

我能得到哪些分支，我的人生故事的分支，从这里起步的哪一种未来,有更多快乐更少痛苦“

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