happiness ain「t a thing in itself --- it」s only a contrast with something that ain「t pleasant. that」s all it is.

快乐不是一件自我存在的东西，它仅是与其他不快乐事情的一个相对比照，这就是快乐的整个情况。

this is not a bad thing in itself but should be resisted in the long term since it leads to bloat in the window controller (which often has a lot of work to do already).

这不是什么坏事，但从长远来说应该要抵制，因为它会导致窗口控制器自身的膨胀（它早已排满了各种任务）。

huntington drew a practical implication from these observations, namely, that political order was a good thing in itself and would not automatically arise out of the modernization process.

亨廷顿从这些观察中得出针对现实的隐含意 义，即政治秩序本身是好东西，但不会从现代化过程中自动产生。

to deal with a situation, the text will discuss the restricted factors and countermeasure from the builder, the user, the pattern of thing in itself etc.

针对这一现象，本文从建设者、用户、中小学数字图书馆形态本身等三方面具体论述制约因素，并在其中提出对策。

for bergson, he notes, intuition 「unites with the thing in itself and grasps it from the inside, in its uniqueness.」

他注意到对于柏格森来说，直觉「能够本能地、直接地把握精神并进入精神意识的深处，抓住其独特性。」

happiness ain「t a thing in itself --- it」s only a contrast with something that ain「t pleasant. that」s all it is.

在所有的动物当中，人类是最残酷的，是唯一将快乐建立在制造痛苦上的动物。

retributivists, who seem to hold that there are circumstances in which the infliction of suffering is good thing in itself , are charged by their opponents with vindictive barbarousness .

报应论者认为，在特定情形下，施加令人痛苦的惩罚在本质上是善的，而功利论者则指责其为野蛮的报复；

but what we sensed is already not thing in itself, it was the phenomenon synthesized and constituted by the transcendental form of sense and thinking when thing in itself works on us .

但我们感知到的物已不是自在之物，而是自在之物作用于我们的感官而被感觉和思维的先验形式综合、构造所产生的现象。