The trace of mercy, not just think the phantom pain?

那一丝丝的怜悯，不正是思痛的幽灵？

One such condition is phantom pain that persists in the mouth after a tooth has been removed.

幻痛就是这样一种牙病，在患者拔牙后一个月内一直挥之不去。

To their delight, they discovered that memantine not only reduced changes in the brain, it also decreased both the incidence and the intensity of phantom pain.

让他们欣慰的是，他们发现美金刚胺不但减少了大脑的改变，而且也降低了患肢疼痛的次数和强度。

This is causing occasional, but significant pain to developers by forcing them to chase phantom test failures.

这将给开发人员带来虽然是偶尔的，但却是严重的困难，它将迫使他们追赶虚幻的测试失败。

With this hypothesis in mind, she reckoned that another way to treat phantom-limb pain might be to prevent pain memories from forming in the first place.

根据这个假设，她构想另一种治疗途径应该是在一开始就防止形成关于疼痛的记忆。

After a few weeks of such daily treatment sessions, each lasting 15 minutes, about half of patients report that their phantom limbs and the pain associated with them have disappeared.

这样每天15分钟的治疗进行几周之后，大约一半的病人报告说他们的患肢及其伴随的疼痛消失了。

Some amputees are already known to experience phantom limb pain - a feeling of pain in a limb that is no longer there - but synaesthetic pain is different.

我们知道，一些截肢的患者会对已经失去的肢体产生幻觉性疼痛。

As if this phantom, full of pain.

幻影好像饱受痛苦。

All of these results suggest to Dr Flor that phantom-limb pain is best understood as a form of unconscious learning, similar to motor reflexes and perception skills.

这些结果都提示福罗博士最好要把患肢理解成无意识的学习，就像运动反射和感知技能一样。