We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

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if something seems good or bad or whatever.

表示事情的好与坏，或在其他情况下，都可以使用。

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And then a cultivation of the self, you have to understand you have a history You have to understand you relationship with tradition, you have a community that shaped you, a family that shaped you, sometimes good sometimes bad.

并培养自我意识，你要理解你的过去,你必须理解自己与传统的关系，理解改变过你的社区，改变过你的家庭，改变的结果或好或坏。

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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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And of course, since it's not just black and white, good life or bad life, but various shades of gray, better lives and worse lives, what's the yardstick by virtue of ? which we measure better and worse lives?

因为不是单纯的黑白，好或坏的人生，两者是混杂的，更好的人生和更坏的人生，衡量更好和更坏人生的,道德标准是什么？

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