这远远不像大卫预料的那么痛苦。

It was nowhere near as painful as David had expected.

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如果他的表情没有那么痛苦，那一定很英俊。

His face would have been handsome if it had not been so miserable.

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如果他听了我的话，他就不会那么痛苦了。

If he had listened to me, he couldn't have been so miserable.

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and in fact in art and in religion, if I don't recognize my pain and confusion and suffering, it is not, in my words, self-vific.

事实上，在艺术和宗教中，如果我不面对我的痛苦，疑惑和苦难，那么艺术就不是，用我的话讲，有现实意义的。

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How can I pursue my happiness ? when there is so much suffering in the world?

我怎么能追求自己的快乐,当世上有那么多痛苦时？

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But if the balance of pain over pleasure-- If there's more pain than pleasure so that the balance is negative, that's worse than zero.

如果痛苦减快乐-,如果痛苦多于快乐,那么结果就是负的，比零小。

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