And so we're able to evaluate not just lives as a whole, looking back at the pearly gate.

所以我们不仅能评估整个人生，当站在天堂门口回首人生时。

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Rather he maintains as he puts it near the end of the defense speech that the examined life is alone worth living.

相反地，他维持辩护,快终结时的论点,受检视的人生孤独但有活着的价值。

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