My life would've gone better had I chosen to become a farmer instead of chosen to become a doctor.

我的生活本来会变得更好,如果我选择成为农民而不是医生的话。

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you can choose where you want to live.

你就能选择你希望生活的地方。

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So it's quite difficult in the real world for candidates to position themselves.

所以在现实生活中候选人,选择位置是很难的

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Well, if it really was true then that if only we faced the facts about our mortality that we would live life rather differently, ? how could it be reasonable for us to disregard those facts?

如果这真的是真的,那么只要我们面对我们必有一死的事实,我们就会选择不同的生活，无视这些事实又怎么可能是合理的？

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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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