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VOA: standard.2010.05.25

So even if the soul theory is the correct theory of personality, it's not enough to give me what matters.

所以即便灵魂理论是人格的正确理论，也不足以给我我想要的重要的东西。

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And it might turn out that although,normally, having what matters goes hand in hand with surviving, logically speaking,they can come apart.

也许结论就是，虽然通常，拥有这些重要的东西和生存息息相关，逻辑上来说，它们是可以分开的。

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It must certainly apply to matters of opinion to what we would call today First Amendment issues.

它必须能适用于关乎民意的事件,就像今天的第一修正案事件一样。

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What really matters about a leader is their committment to getting to the right answer and to doing it in the right way.

对于好的领导者而言,重要的是致力于,得到正确答案,以及如何用正确的方式来实现它。

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The debt irrelevance theory says that it matters for the price of a share what a company issues-- how much debt it takes on-- but it doesn't matter for the value of the company.

负债不相关理论说明它和,公司发行股票的每股价格,和总负债有关,但和公司的价值无关

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So as it were,we might say, it might be that mere survival or bare bones survival doesn't really give me what matters.

所以我们可以说，仅仅生存下去,肉体的存活并不是我需要的。

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But in terms of what matters, it's the death of the person and that's star one,not star two.

但是谈到什么才是重要的，就应该是作为人的死亡，就是星号一不是星号二。

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All right,so on the body view,I exist here, but I'm not alive,so it doesn't give me what matters.

好了，在肉体理论角度，我存在于此，但我并不是活着的，这不是我想要的关键。

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And what matters,or so it seems to me,at least, isn't survival per se,but rather having the same personality.

至少对我来说，重要的，不是存活本身，而是拥有相同的人格。

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Or it might be,even as a body theorist, I'll cease to exist but what matters will continue.

或者即便作为肉体理论者，我不再存在，但我看重的东西会继续存活。

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when I think about what matters to me,it's not just survival.

当思考对自己重要的东西时，不仅是存活。

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When I think about what I want-- and I'm just going to invite you to,each one of you, to ask yourself what is it that you want, what matters to you in survival?

我思考自己想要什么这个问题时-,我也请你们每个人都，问问自己这是不是你们想要的，你们想要存活是为了什么？

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It might be that I get what matters to me even if I have, as long as I have,similar personality,even if I don't have survival.

即便只要我拥有相似的人格，不生存下去也无关紧要。

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But still,I want to say,it will give me what matters!

但仍然，我想说这才是对我来说重要的！

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What is it that matters in survival?

生存中最重要的东西是什么？

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It doesn't give me what matters.

没有任何重要的意义。

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