"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."

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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。

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As long as my soul continues to exist it's still me whether or not my body's still alive.

只要我的灵魂继续存在,无论我的肉体是不是活着,我仍然存在。

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It's alive and well in diplomacy, it's alive and well in many, many cultures.

在外交中,在许多许多文化中荣誉的概念依旧存在

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Is this all okay? If we're all going to die then does it really mean that we should just do the best we can at anybody's expense while we're alive?

这样真的可以吗,如果我们终难免一死,这就意味着我们可以在活着的时候,可以不惜代价,去更好的满足自己吗

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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

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Well, actually, the first remark is, probably wouldn't be completely accurate to say, to describe these views as saying, " "It's being alive per se."

实际上，第一个评价是，也许这种说法不完全准确，他们把这些观点描述成为，“活着本身“

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It's as though being alive is infinitely valuable in comparison to questions about the contents.

活着似乎有着无限的价值,如果和生活内容相比的话。

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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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So it's pretty obvious that no machine could be alive.

所以很明显,机器不可能是具有生命力

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On the other hand, if the balance from here on out would've been negative, then it's good for me that I died now instead of being kept alive with a life not worth living.

另一方面，如果从现在开始计算其结果是负数，那么我现在死去就是好事,因为我不用不值地活着。

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It's not good enough that I'm alive.

我不仅希望存活。

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It's as though we need--Normally, we think that look, either you're alive or you're dead.

通常我们都认为,人不是死就是活着。

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