“你看，” 休斯说，“有人想羞辱你、折磨你。”

"You see," said Hughes, "there's people who want to humiliate you and grind you down."

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我想最终这个问题会折磨你，让你失望，让你放弃快乐。

I think eventually that question would gnaw at you and sour and override the pleasure.

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我的工作之一就是折磨你。

This is what I do.I'm going to torture you.

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After I give you amnesia,before I torture you, Linda I will drive you insane and make you believe that you're Linda.

在我让你失忆和折磨你之前，我会先把你逼疯，让你相信你是。

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He says,But because I'm a generous mad scientist, before I torture you,what I'm going to do is give you amnesia.

但因为我是宽厚的疯狂科学家，在折磨你之前，我会先让你失忆。

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And so--like the chainlet--it takes that stone-like distillation of life, turning rain to stone, turning life to the representation by your tormentor.

就像那条链子，它提取了,生命中如磐石般不朽的精华，将雨水变成石头，将生命变成,折磨你的人笔下的画像。

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