"All politics grows out of the barrel of a gun," as a famous twentieth-century Machiavellian once put it.

所有的政治都是活在枪杆子下“,这是二十世纪一位著名,马奇亚维利派学者的解译。

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We could imagine a world in which everybody dies-- everybody dies at the age of a hundred.

想象一下我们活在一个-,所有人都在一百岁死去的世界里。

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They grew the virus in monkey cell cultures, they purified the virus because you got to get all the other stuff from the cells that you're growing it in a way, they inactivated it by treating it with formalin which is just a formula-- it's just a mixture of Formaldehyde; Formaldehyde cross links proteins.

研究人员将病毒种植在猴细胞内,进行培养,并提纯病毒,在某种程度上,通过这种方法,可以得到所有类型的病毒,研究人员用福尔马林,处理病毒,使其灭活,福尔马林就是甲醛的水溶液,甲醛可以使蛋白质发生交联反应

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It's as though we live life for a while, getting a feel for all the wonderful things life could offer us, and then a moment later, as it were, it's snatched away from us.

似乎我们活了一会，感受到了生命能提供给我们的所有美好的事物，然后片刻之后，又好像，被从我们身边夺走。

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But we might then wonder, for every person who gets less than the average amount of life-- suppose we take the median, take the amount of life that's exactly, 50 percent of the people get more, 50 percent of the people get less.

但是接着我们可能会想，对于所有活得比平均寿命要短的人-,假设我们取中间数，相对于平均寿命，刚好五成的人活得更长，五成的人活得更短。

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