To many people,the ability of a cell to reproduce itself is the definition of life itself.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

But I would say - I would agree with you - but I would add that for me, good religion and good art - I like this idea -- are as real as life itself.

我同意你的观点，但我还想加一点,对我来说，好的宗教和好的艺术,应该和生活一样真实，我喜欢这个理念。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's--life itself is a container which we fill with various goods or bads.

生命本身是一个容器,我们向里面装入各种好事坏事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Life itself is but a compromise between death and life.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Life for Hobbes is an exercise in continual willing and continual choosing that may be temporarily interrupted but can never come to an end except with the end of life itself.

霍布斯的生活就是一种长期意愿的实施,和长期选择，有可能会被暂时打断,但是永远不会结束,除非他自己想那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

For Julia, who is sitting at a nearby table, the magic often happens when life itself seems un-magical.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

So the animal may be eaten to satisfy the human hunger for flesh, but the life essence itself belongs to God.

因此，人们可以吃动物，来满足对肉的渴望，但是血属于上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It looks like a leaf. It is nature in its aesthetic form as imitation of itself, life as an imitation of life.

它看起来像一片树叶，它是艺术,化的自然，模仿着它自己，用生命模仿生命。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The concept of Star Festival itself is about my own life.

七夕“项目的理念是我自己的生活。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But somehow or another it's not enough because the otherness, - the mutuality of regard that this story wants to enforce as life-- as life properly lived--is not entailed in and of itself in neatness and busyness.

但是这还不够，因为还有别的东西，比如这个故事还讲了-,生命不只是,限定在简洁与忙碌之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That is, the vector itself has a life of its own.

也就是说,矢量本身是独立的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

In answer to the promise of the Bishop's heavenly mansion in another life, she claims another sort of house, what she calls love's mansion which is noble itself and which is to be lived here on earth.

在回答主教许诺的在另一个世界,生活在天国的大厦时,她提出另一种房子，称之为爱之屋,那房子自身是高贵的,是在现世存在也可居住的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He presents himself, in other words, as a human being of unparalleled piety and devotion who will risk life itself rather than quit the post that has been given to him.

他呈现的自我，换句话说，是极度虔诚敬神的人类,甚至压下自己的生命作赌注,也不愿放弃这个天赐的角色。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We have to not talk-- just talk about the good things in the life, but the good of life itself, and we have to notice that perhaps on certain views, for certain cases, it's not really the case that when I die I'm being deprived of a good life.

我们不但要看到-,生活中的美好事物，还要看到活着本身的好处，我们发现也许有某些观点，在某些情况下，情况则不完全是这样,即我死之后不会被剥夺美好的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Life may have value in and of itself, but it's not mere life.

生活本身也许有价值，但却不是随便哪种生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Yet, in many respects, if the Republic was the result of comprehensive despair and disillusionment with the prospects of reform, the dialogue itself points back to an earlier moment in Plato's life and the life of the city of Athens.

从很多方面看来，如果《理想国》,是对改革前景,全面失望与醒悟的结果，则对话本身便指明了,柏拉图的早年生活,以及雅典的早期生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

.. Because we also have to add in, if we accept a valuable container theory, we also have to add in some extra positive points to take account of the fact that, well, at least you're alive or have the life or a person-- or whatever it is that you think is valuable in and of itself.

因为我们还要添加，如果我们接受有价值容器理论的话，我们还要添加一些额外的正数,你要考虑，你至少活着或者拥有人的生命-,或任何你觉得它本身有价值的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选