"You might as well laugh as cry and the tragedy that is the human condition invites sarcasm, invites irony,invites satire, invites laughter.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

So let's ask ourselves, are there any interaction effects when we talk about the human condition ? that it's life followed by death?"

所以让我们问问自己，当我们讨论,生后即是死的人类处境时,有没有相互影响“

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On some level that's just the human condition.

在某种程度上，人就是这样的。

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One may need to watch it more than once to penetrate the different layers of the human condition.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The negative combination effects that I was talking about are certainly there, but on balance I think the human condition for must of us is a good one.

我所说的负面组合影响是肯定有的，但我认为人类的处境对大部分人来说是好的。

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"There is nothing like science to touch every aspect of the human condition.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

To me that seems an accurate description of the human condition that is meaningful, not only for the Greeks and their heirs in the West, but for all human beings.

在我看来,这些对于人类情况的描述是,准确而意味深长的,不仅对希腊人和西方人,而是全人类

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The Forest Service is protecting the area from too much human activity so it will return to its natural wild condition.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

And yet we know that evil is a condition of human existence.

但我们知道，邪恶是人类生存的一种状况。

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On the one hand, the optimists might say, "Even when we throw in the extra interaction effects, even the negative interaction effects, the overall nature of the human condition is positive.

一方面，乐观主义者可能说，“就算我们把另外的相互影响，就算把负面的相互影响算进去，人类处境的总体本质还是积极的。

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A man is granted too much,he is too well off, he is too rich,he is too strong,he is too beautiful, so much so that he becomes too arrogant and is ready to step beyond his human condition.

如果一个人被赋予太多,他太过富有,强大,接近完美,拥有的太多以至于变得傲慢,准备超越身为凡人的现状

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He assumed that such a course would lead to progress and the general improvement of the human condition, and it was that sort of thinking that lay at the heart of the scientific revolution and remains the faith on which modern science and technology rest.

他认为这将会引领进步,全面提升人类的生存状况,正是这个学说成为了,科技革命的核心并为现代科学技术,的发展奠定了良好的基础

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What's the overall assessment of the human condition?

如何对人类的处境进行整体的评估？

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That's the human condition--life followed by death.

那就是人类的处境，生后即是死。

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