In an unprecedented televised appeal to the Afghan people after the Kunduz attack, General McChrystal said he took the loss of civilian life very seriously.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

This all sounds very general but there are some striking demonstrations of this and how it could work in everyday life.

听起来很泛泛而谈,但这种现象非常显著,影响我们日常生活的方方面面。

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If you offer life insurance, you have life tables which give you probabilities of dying at various ages, but that's for the general population.

如果你提供人寿险,你会找张寿命表,告诉你各个年龄段的死亡率,但那是针对普通人群的

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Many of them are emerging from conflicts. And,sub-Saharan Africa in particular, especially in Eastern and Southern Africa are facing major problems of HIV, which has had a huge impact on especially child mortality, life expectancy in general.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

If you start listing all the things worth having in life, it might seem as though you couldn't possibly come to any general organizing principles.

假设你开始列出人生中值得拥有的东西，你似乎不可能,总结出一个概括性的组织准则。

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The answer lies in "a universal attribute of instinct and perhaps of organic life in general," that "an instinct is an urge inherent in organic life to restore an earlier state of things."

答案就在本能,或者生命机体中“,他说：，“本能就是生命体与生俱来的,想要回到最初状态的驱动力“

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I feel like there is a general distinction we made between the right to life that individuals possess and the fact that the government cannot take away a single individual's right to life.

我觉得这两者之间有明显的区别,就是个人所拥有的生命权,以及政府不能夺走,个人生命权的事实。

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