"We really wanted to go out emotionally and have people walk away with the feeling maybe there is no such thing as 'happily ever after,' but even with all of its flaws, life is really great."

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But you understand what I mean because you've had a remarkable life that no one would signed up for.

但您应该理解我的意思吧,您的一生如此非凡,是普通人不能承受的。

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And he responded, "No, but I would gladly give my life for three brothers or five nephews or nine first cousins.

他回答，不，但我乐意把生命给三个兄弟,或5个侄子或九个堂兄弟姊妹。

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There is no one-size-fits-all model of political life but good regimes may come in a variety of forms.

政治生活并没有大小通吃的模式,但好的政体,可能以各种形式存在。

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But in the case of severe disabilities, most people are in no doubt that life is worse.

但是在严重残疾的例子里，大多残疾人都毫无疑问地认为,自己的生活就是糟糕的。

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But the vast majority always says, no, there's something missing from that life.

但是大多数人则总是说，不，那种生活有所欠缺。

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- So what are these truths? We'll begin to answer this question--begin to answer this question, you'll spend the rest of your life finishing the process of answering this question. But we'll begin by identifying some, by no means all, of the major themes of Genesis 12 through 50.

那么这些真实是什么？我们将开始回答这个问题,开始回答这个问题，你们将用余生的时间来完成,这个问题的解答过程，但我们将开始辨明一部分的,不可能是全部的，《创世纪》十二至五十章的主要主题。

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Anyway, you have to overcome these-- you have to think that ... if you go into the field you would probably-- If you're successful-- you would probably end up as a philanthropist; but no movie will be made about your life and you may encounter hostility the whole way.

不管怎样，你们要克服这种想法-,你们要认为,如果你进入这一行，你很可能-,如果你成功了-,你很可能成为一位慈善家;,但是不会有电影记录你的人生,而且你可能整天遭受白眼。

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Fish don't have any of that, so no offense to fish but it's— fish don't have much of a mental life.

鱼类并没有大脑皮层,无意冒犯鱼类,只不过,鱼类并没有什么心理活动

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But against this there are those who think, no, in addition to thinking about the value of the content of life, we have to remember-- so these people claim--that life itself is worth having.

但是与此相反有些人认为，不，除了考虑生活的内容，我们还要记住-,生活本身是值得过的，这些人这样认为。

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One of the reasons why the Milgram experiment is so nice to know is that if this ever happens to you, not as an experiment but in real life, it will no longer be new to you.

其中一个原因,为什么我们都应该知道米尔格林姆实验,就是如果这种情况发生在你身上，我不是说实验，而是在现实生活中，你不再对这种情况一无所知。

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But if life would no longer have anything good to offer you, if what you then would have had would have been something negative instead of something positive, then at that point, dying wouldn't actually be a bad thing.

但是当生命再也不能向你提供美好，届时我们面对的是,消极的而非积极的东西，那时死亡可能不是一件坏事。

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