You know, most of these people are never going to be born, of course But we're talking about possible people ? How many possible people are there?

你知道，这些人中的大部分,永远都不会出生，当然,但我们在讨论可能的人,有多少可能的人？

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Why would anyone ever risk one's life for ? one's country or a cause just to help other people, people that we don't know and probably will never know?

为什么人人都要为自己的国家或者,去救人的缘由而冒险，并且这个人我们不认识,可能永远也不会认识？

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Life for Hobbes is an exercise in continual willing and continual choosing that may be temporarily interrupted but can never come to an end except with the end of life itself.

霍布斯的生活就是一种长期意愿的实施,和长期选择，有可能会被暂时打断,但是永远不会结束,除非他自己想那样。

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