People in the path of a tornado often have just minutes to make life-or-death decisions.

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What kind of life do you wanna lead, and what decisions will lead you to that life.

你想过什么样的生活，怎样的决定能引导你过上那种生活。

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Just as you are making decisions about your life, where you need to go and what needs to happen next.

当你正在为自己的人生做决定的时候——你要去哪儿？接下来又会发生什么？

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If someone who is living a life with disability, who feels that your thought would tend to lead towards decisions to end their life.

如果那些残疾人,感到你的言论，可能会,导致他们生命突然被结束。

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Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

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There's something called "variable life," which refers to a life insurance policy where the policyholder can make decisions about the investment of the money in the whole life policy.

有种保单叫做"可变寿险",作为终身寿险的一种,投保人可以自主选择,在终身寿险上进行多少投资

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And so, Freud's theory is, as I said before, a theory of everyday life, of decisions, of errors, of falling in love, but it's also a theory of child development.

所以，正如之前所说，弗洛伊德的理论不仅解释了日常生活，决策，失误以及恋爱等现象，还解释了儿童的发展。

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It seems like it's not a news flash that religion is playing an extremely important part in our public square conversations, in our political life, in how we are making decisions on questions of poverty.

这似乎并非一条简讯,宗教发挥着极其重要的作用,在我们在公共场所的谈话中，在我们的政治生活中，在我们如何针对贫困问题做出决策。

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