Justices Thomas and Antonin Scalia set the bar higher, arguing that the method would have to be "deliberately designed to inflict pain" to be unconstitutional.

托马斯法官和斯卡利亚法官把标准定得更高，称只有“刻意引起伤痛”的行为才是违宪。

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Professor Thomas Weiss, who led the study, said: 'These findings show that words alone are capable of activating our pain matrix.

指导这项调查的Thomas Weiss教授说：“这些发现表明，单词本身就能激活我们的疼痛反应机制。”

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'The tooth pain brings them in. Diabetes and hypertension are often silent diseases, ' says Edwidge Thomas, the nursing school's director of clinical practice affairs.

护理学院临床实践事务主任爱德威治•托马斯（Edwidge Thomas）说：“他们是因为牙疼才来看病的，而糖尿病和高血压的症状通常都不是那么明显。”

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But Dr Jan van der Merwe, head of the Input Pain Management unit at St Thomas's Hospital, London, told BBC News Online it was difficult to take conclusive findings from looking at brain activity because so many things were happening at the same time.

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For instance, at times the pain was so bad that all I wanted to do was lay in bed, but Dr Thomas has encouraged me to go out for a walk, or to sit in the garden.

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