Once you have tasted life in southern California, it takes a peculiar kind of masochism to return to a British winter.

一旦尝试过南加利福尼亚州的生活，只有某种怪异的自虐狂才会想要返回寒冷的英国。

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Robert Kennedy once said that a country's GDP measures "everything except that which makes life worthwhile."

罗伯特·肯尼迪曾说过，一个国家的国内生产总值可以衡量“除了让生活有价值以外的一切事情”。

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Pleasant thoughts came at once; life took on a cheerfuller seeming.

愉快的思想立刻涌上心头；生活呈现出一种欢快的景象。

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As she told a friend once: "In a life that stopped guessing, you and I should not feel at home."

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Disappointment number two, once there is a legitimate government based on consent, the only limits for Locke are limits on arbitrary takings of life or of liberty or of property.

失望的第二点，一旦经过同意建立合法政府后，对洛克来说它唯一的限制,就是不能肆意夺取生命或自由或财产。

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Well, I think that once again, they've made the same mistake the previous case did, that they assigned a dollar value to human life, and once again, they failed to take account things like suffering and emotional losses by the families.

我觉得他们犯了与前面案例,相同的错误，量化了生命的价值，但同样的，他们没有考虑受害者家人承受的,痛苦和精神损失。

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Andy Falconer made the "once in a life time discovery" when out searching with fellow treasure hunter Rob Farrer.

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This time, we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life.

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It would be nice if people like the films I make, and hopefully they have a real life span, but once I am done with a movie, my energy needs to go into the next thing.

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