Step it up! Look alive out there. The good thing about Vietnam is there was alwayssomeplace to go.

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00 Suppose that being alive per se is worth plus a hundred points, just to make up some number.

假设活着本身价值超过，这只是例举数字说明。

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How good it is to be alive is a matter of adding up all of the-- call it the contents of life.

活着有多美好取决于-,生活内容的总和。

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"Those who scored higher on those measures of social relationships were 50 percent more likely to be alive at that follow-up than people who scored low on those measures."

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

It's as though we've been assuming, and I have been assuming up to this moment, that being alive per se has no value.

就像我们所假设的，当然这也是我到目前为止一直假设的，即活着本身没有价值。

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"So I don't think there's a way to prepare for that; but you could definitely say I felt a little bit of pressure trying to bring Jacob's character and Jacob and Bella's relationship alive for the fans, because this movie definitely develops their relationship and it sets up the love triangle, so it's a very important story."

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

Well, not up and about; they're presumably lying in their hospital beds, but they're clearly alive.

呃,并不是下床活动,他们大概还躺在病床上,但他们显然活过来了

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Just like,with the body view,we wanted to say, Being alive is not all it's cracked up to be, the real question is not,am I alive,on the body view?

从肉体理论上，我们想要说，存活一事并非所想，真正的问题是，肉体理论角度看来，我还活着吗？

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And deciding how valuable it is, how good it is for me to be alive is a matter of adding up the value of the contents of the life.

它的价值，以及我活着的好处,取决于生活内容的价值总和。

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Screw me up enough and maybe I'd enjoy being alive forever.

改变我的人性，也许我会永远享受。

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