So that means that we assume that it's better to have limbs and functioning limbs than not to have them.

这意味着，我们默认，有正常的四肢的生活,要比没有四肢的生活好过。

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Rather, by looking at extreme cases, they can help us best understand normal life.

相反,研究这些极端的例子,可以帮助我们理解正常的生活

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Meanwhile, his youth was going away and now this imaginary student is now thirty-three years old never had time to marry or start a normal life.

与此同时，他的青春年华也已经逝去了,现在这位设想出来的同学已经33岁了,还没有结婚也没有开始正常人的生活。

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Research suggests that there is a fair bit of redundancy in the brain, you can lose portions of the brain and still have a perfectly functioning, peak functioning person.

有研究显示,大脑中有些部分是没用的,即使失去大脑的某些部分,你还是可以正常生活，还是非常正常的人。

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But when you go to restaurants or people buy steaks you just don't see anything that small, and so the serving sizes are multiples of what might be typical.

但当人们去餐馆或者买牛排的时候,不会看见这么小的肉,所以我们生活中的份量是正常大小的几倍

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And one of the cases that I've talked about probably be the most controversial is where babies were born with severe problems that not gonna be compatible with what the parents and doctors judge to be a reasonable quality of life.

我所讲过的例子中,下面这个可能是最具争议的,有些婴儿一出生就有严重的生理问题,他们无法如他们的,父母和医生所愿,用有正常的生活质量。

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I try to lead a normal life." It's sort of funny.

我只想过正常的生活”，这有点好笑。

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