That's what the optimist thinks-- not just for themselves individually, but for everybody, the total is always positive.

那是乐观主义者的想法-,而且不但是对他们自己，而是对所有人，等式结果总是正数。

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You might say that optimists are people who think that for everybody in every case, in every circumstance, the total is always positive.

乐观主义者认为,任何人在任何情况下，在任何环境里，等式结果永远是正数。

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Optimistic people, and again, not Pollyannaish detached optimism, but grounded optimists, on average, live significantly longer.

乐观的人，不是指盲目的乐天派，而是脚踏实地的乐观主义者，平均而言，明显更加长寿。

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And he had a miserable life until then because he always had illnesses, some of which might be even psychosomatic. So he was the optimist and the one who lived well with the pessimist.

那之前他生活得很悲惨，因为,他总是病魔缠身，有些是精神方面的疾病,因此他属于乐观主义者,而且能够和悲观主义者相处的很好。

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And in between the optimists on the one hand and the pessimists on the other, you've got moderates who say, " "It varies.

而在乐观主义者,与悲观主义者之间，还有折中主义者认为，“这要看情况。

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we now have a return of the division between moderates, optimists and pessimists.

现在我们有了温和主义者，乐观主义者和悲观主义者之分。

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.. So that death-- they're optimists in this strange sense, if they think life would've been good, which means of course that that we die is bad for us.

所以死亡-,在这种奇怪意义上他们是乐观主义者，如果他们认为活着本来会很美好，那意味着死亡是件坏事。

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I suppose, again, the optimist says, "Yeah, death is bad, but life is good, sufficiently good to outweigh the badness of the fact that we're going to die.

我假设，再一次，乐观主义者说，“死亡不好，但是生命好，好到足以盖过我们会死,这个事实的坏处。

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On the one hand, the optimists might say, "Even when we throw in the extra interaction effects, even the negative interaction effects, the overall nature of the human condition is positive.

一方面，乐观主义者可能说，“就算我们把另外的相互影响，就算把负面的相互影响算进去，人类处境的总体本质还是积极的。

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That's what the optimists might say.

那是乐观主义者的说法。

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.. You might say, optimists are those-- now in this more chastened version of optimism, optimists say, "Even if immortality would be bad eventually after a million years or ten million years or what have you, " the next chunk of life would've been good for all of us."

可以说，乐观主义者是那些-,对于比较保守的乐观主义者，他们会说，“就算一百万年或一千万年之后“,”永生最终是件坏事，但是“,'现在往后的一大段生活对所有人都是美好的“

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