An attempt to preserve life in a state of neutrality and indifference, is unreasonable and vain.

试图保持生活的中立和淡漠，是不明智的，徒劳的。

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We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life.

我们想到死便惊恐不已，因而不惜一切努力、麻烦和费用来保全我们的生命。

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Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

现在，不要因为把我卖到这里自忧自恨。这是神差我在你们以先来，为要保全生命。

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Tom Farnquist says shipwrecks are exciting because they preserve a detailed picture of maritime life that can be hundreds of years old.

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We are all endowed, he says, with a kind of natural right to life and the desire to preserve oneself is not just a biological fact, although it is also that, it is for him a moral right, it is a moral entitlement, every being has a fundamental right to its own life.

他说，我们具有，一种对生活的自然权利,和保护自己的欲望,这不只是一种生理现象，虽然是一种生理现象，对他来说这更是一种道德权利，是一种道德资格，每个人最自己的生活都有这种根本权利。

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And we could not preserve the quality of human life

如果不使用动物做实验，我们就难以保持人类的生活质量，

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Natural human tendency to preserve life, especially of a family member or loved one.

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Caesar may only rightfully wield his sword to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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"Officers were trying to preserve life, it was very much a case of preserving life, " he said.

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