"If you add the fact that there is water all over the city, then the risks are even higher.

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They mean to be saying rather,even if there are others around you, even if there are others with you,dying is something that you're doing alone.

他们是要说，即使身边有他人的存在，即便身旁有其他人，你还是在孤独中死亡。

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Fine. But there are reasons to study development even if you are not interested in children because sometimes developmental studies and developmental data and developmental science can inform questions about adults.

没关系,但即使你对儿童不感兴趣,却依然有很多原因促使你去研究发展,因为发展的研究,数据以及科学,有时可以解释成人的问题

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by asking, which of them are so valuable you'd be prepared to do them even if they would introduce what isn't otherwise there, ? namely, the risk of death?

通过问自己，什么事如此有价值,以至于你准备好要去做,即便它们会带来如果不去做就不会有的，也就是，死亡的风险？

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