We've been told by caregivers - medical doctors and nurses in the hospitals - they have seen clear signs of torture in people who have been brought in a bad condition after they've been tortured,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

For the condition of their laws is bad almost past cure, except for some miraculous accident.

因为其法律现况,都已过时且不合宜，除了少数的神奇例外。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the condition where she was made to look attractive but gave you bad feedback about yourself, often the subjects in that condition would look for an opportunity to interact with her in the future, obviously to try to prove that her evaluation was wrong.

当一个漂亮女人,对自己评价不好时，这种条件下的人,常常会以后寻找机会,和她相处，明显想证明她的判断是错的。

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To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

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