Eventually, you'd become horrified that you were, in effect, stuck in this rat-like existence.

最终你会变得恐惧，恐惧自己，陷入这种老鼠般的存在中。

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In Neurobiology last year, we were told of a rat who was tested a particular center in the brain where the rat was able to stimulate his brain and caused itself intense pleasure repeatedly.

上学年的生物神经学课提到个实验,老鼠的大脑有一特定区域,让老鼠自行刺激这一区域,从而不断获得强烈的快感。

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I don't think they were having very good success, but they did notice something interesting which is that the rat kept returning to the corner of the cage in which it was stimulated the day before So Olds got an interesting idea, he said, what if we let the rats stimulate in its own brain, what would happen.

他们的试验并不是非常成功，但他们确实是注意到了一些有趣的事情,老鼠总是会回到,昨天接受刺激的那个箱子的角落,因此奥兹产生了一个有趣的想法，他想，如果我们让老鼠在自己的脑中对自己进行刺激会，发生什么事情。

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