In fact, even if you haven't had a biology class it's hard to be alive in 2008 and not know something about DNA; it's become such an important part of our lives.
实际上,即使你们没有上过生物课,也不可能活在当下却对DNA一无所知,它已经与我们的生活密不可分
Modest container theories, that is, say there's a value to being alive, but it can in principle be outweighed.
保守的有价值容器理论认为,活着有一定的价值,但是按道理它可以被超越。
In 1718, he ordered a man kept alive after being horribly tortured, so he could be tortured some more and suffer as long as humanly possible.
718年 他下令救活一名遭受酷刑的男子,却是为了尽可能长时间地折磨他
I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.
现在列维仍然在世,年事已高,晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。
What makes it so much better to be alive now in terms of your likelihood to die of an infectious disease than it did in London in 1665?
是什么让生活变得更好呢,从传染病死亡率的角度来讲,与1665年的伦敦相比
In addition to not being broken, what do you need to be alive?
除了没有被破坏,怎样才算活着?
And so even if, you might say, the way my life is going in terms of its contents is bad, being alive per se might still be a good thing.
所以,就算,我的生活内容方面非常糟糕,活着本身也许仍然是件好事。
Yes and no. It was fascinating to be as Wordsworth says, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive" -to be around in those days, but at the same time I think it's rather advantageous for us to be still "in theory."
可以说会,也可以说不会,正如华兹华斯所说,“能活在那黎明时光是何等幸福“,虽然过去对人有很大吸引力,但同时我们还是,只在理论层面研究比较好“
Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.
假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。
After all, a blade of grass is alive, and I presume that even fans of the, what we might call valuable container theories, don't think that, " "Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if-- " as long as I was alive in the way that a blade of grass is alive."
毕竟,一片草叶也是活着的,我觉得就算是,有价值容器理论的粉丝们,也不会认为,“活着不是很棒吗-,“即便是像一片草叶那样活着“
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