"When babies are born, babies have an instinctive need, they're hard-wired to breastfeed.

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You should acquire overtime this instinctive aversion to just code or programs that just look ugly because things that look ugly generally are not easy to maintain.

对于代码和程序你会有一种本能的讨厌,这是因为这些代码和程序看起来很丑陋,并且不容易维护。

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This is something automatic, instinctive, and does not require your brain.

这便是一种自动的,本能的,无需大脑参与的行为

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So, Darwin writes, "Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children, while no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew or write."

查尔斯·达尔文写到,"人类拥有说话的本能倾向,我们会看到幼儿含糊吐字,然而儿童却并不具有烘焙,酿酒或是写作的本能倾向"

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These are particularly callous and cold-blooded statements suggesting that this instinctive empathy, this aspect of moral thought, is not-- is present in most of us but not in all of us.

这些极其无情冷血的话,表明移情这种本能，这种道德观念的一个要素-,存在于我们大部分人当中，但不是所有人。

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There is some reason to believe that in the population known as "psychopaths," a population we'll return to later on when we discuss mental illness, this sort of instinctive empathy is broken and the pain of others just doesn't bother them very much.

我们有理由相信,在一类被称为“精神变态者“的人当中“,我们以后会继续讨论这类人,当我们讲到精神疾病时，他们就没有这种本能的移情,他们对别人的痛苦无动于衷。

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