But refining in just the right way is going to turn out to be a surprisingly not straightforward matter, at least that's how it seems to me.

但是让人惊讶的是，要正确地修改它,并不是那么直接而简单的，至少在我看来不是。

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And deciding how valuable it is, how good it is for me to be alive is a matter of adding up the value of the contents of the life.

它的价值，以及我活着的好处,取决于生活内容的价值总和。

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It just doesn't matter to me that it's me, anymore than it would matter to me if they just tell me, "Oh, there'll be somebody else around there " who will like Chinese poetry."

是不是我已变得不重要，不过是有人告诉我，“将来会有一个人,他喜欢中国诗词“

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Now,if you're like Parfit,and for that matter like me then you're going to say,of course I care I want it to be the case that I'm one of the people who's already had the operation I don't want to be one of the people who hasn't yet had the operation ? You might say,how can that make any sense?

如果你们同意帕非特，那也会同意我,你就会说，我当然在意,我希望的情况是,我是已经做完手术的人,我不想是那种,还没做手术的人,你可能会说，这有什么意义？

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