Well, never mind, John, it's not a matter of life and death.

好了，别介意，约翰，这不是多么了不起的事情。

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Yet for many, its presence has been a matter of life and death.

然而，对许多人来说，它的存在事关生死。

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This, in turn, inevitably means bigger grocery bills for consumers, and greater hardship for the millions in countries where food shortages are a matter of life and death.

反过来，这必然意味着消费者要支付更多的食品杂货账单。而在那些食品短缺问题已经关乎生死存亡的国家，这也会导致数百万人将面临更大的困难。

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That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

有些读者认为,对基督的信仰是关乎生死的大事,这对于那些对基督教,不以为然的人是一个障碍。

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You might think, well, that's just a matter of adding up the goodness of life and subtracting the badness of death and summing whatever it comes to.

你可能会想，不就是把生命的好处加起来,再减去死亡的坏处,然后相加得出一个结论么。

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Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

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Mark Stets warns the cuts around the corner are a matter of life and death.

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The situation facing new veterans is urgent and literally a matter of life and death.

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But Sandusky raping young boys is a matter of life and death, of innocence lost.

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