我喜欢锻炼并看重其外在价值，并不是因为锻炼本身，而是把它作为达到一些目的的手段。

I desire to engage in exercise and I value exercise extrinsically, not for its own sake, but as a means to something beyond it.

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史密斯先生不喜欢苏珊和琼之间那些空洞的谈话，他认为这些空谈毫无价值。

Mr. Smith doesn't like all that empty talk between Susan and Joan, which he thinks will definitely get them nowhere.

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那里他们发现造物被分解而不完全，但是他们也遇到了他们唯一喜欢仰慕的价值，即人与他的沉默。

There they find the creature mutilated, but they also encounter there the only values they like and admire, man and his silence.

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Now, the most natural thing to suggest would be, well, you get clear on your favorite theory about the value of life, whatever that is.

现在，提出的最自然的事情就是，你弄明白你最喜欢的,有关生命价值的理论，不管是什么。

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So, cognitive dissonance will lead you then to think that what you are giving it up for has some value and then you establish a liking for it.

这样认知失调就会让你想到,你为之付出代价的东西一定是有价值的,然后你就会喜欢上它。

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