That is to say, the entire tissue, structure, and nature of our lives our lives are textual lives. That's what he meant.

也就是说，我们生命的整个组织，结构，和本质,我们的生活就是文本的生活，他指的就是这个。

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.. How valuable-- how well off you are, how valuable your life is, is a function of the contents, the pleasure and the pain.

生命的价值-,你有多幸福，你的生活有多少价值，是生活内容的函数，即快乐与痛苦的函数。

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The state of nature fully continues, in many ways, oddly even in civil society, he says, whenever we have reason to believe that our lives or our properties or ourselves are not secure.

从很多方面来说，自然状态，即使在文明社会里也显得奇怪，不论我们是否有理由相信我们有生活,生命和财产财产安全的保障。

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Above and beyond the question of the contents of my life, we have to remember that the mere fact that I'm alive gives my life some value.

除了我的生活内容，我们还要记得,我活着就已经使我的生命有价值了。

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There's something wrong about lives, something inauthentic about lives that are lived without facing the facts of our mortality and living accordingly, whatever the appropriate responses might be.

那种生活是有问题的，不去面对我们终有一死的事实,并相应地生活的生命是不真实的，不管合适的反应可能是什么。

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Now, in thinking about these points, ... in effect I'm suggesting that the value of your life-- so ,we previously were talking about different theories of well-being ? and what makes for the best kind of life.

考虑这些观点的时候，实际上我建议你的生命价值-,我们之前谈到了,幸福的各种理论,即最美好的生活是怎样的。

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A regime as I've said constitutes a people's way of life what they believe makes their life worth living or to put it again slightly differently what a people stand for.

政体，如前所述，包含了人民的生活方式,让他们相信自己的生命,值得继续,或是再稍作修润,即人民的主张。

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But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

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The one point of view takes the philosophic life, the examined life, to be the one most worth living; the other takes the political life, the life of the citizen engaged in the business of deliberating, legislating, making war and peace as the highest calling for a human being.

一个观点为采纳哲思生活，经反省的人生才值得活;,另一个观点为采纳政治生活，公民的生命并入,商议，立法事务，宣战与追求和平,成为最高的人性召唤。

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