"Development is a right and that should continue but that perhaps paths where there could be a reconciliation of the objective of poverty reduction, enhanced standards of living, a life of greater dignity in developing countries can be reconciled with climate objectives by shifting the sources of energy away from the fossil fuels to the cleaner and lower carbon emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

There'd be certain activities perhaps, for example putting a gun to your head, that would put an end to your life.

也许会有某些特定的活动，比如用枪指着你的头，会结束你的生命。

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So perhaps the best form of life would be not immortality; I think that would be not particularly desirable.

所以生命的最好形式,并不是永生;,那并非十分诱人。

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Well I thought that would be my life calling, and perhaps as a dean I have made it happen. -In some ways and aspect.

我觉得那就是我的使命，或许是,作为院长，我完成了使命，-在某些方面。

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There seems to be something to that and yet Hobbes certainly regards life as a precious good, perhaps the most precious good of all, and he writes with a lively sense of how fragile and endangered life is.

看起来有点关系,霍布斯肯定珍视生命，可能把它当作最珍贵的东西，他用一种活泼感写出,人生的脆弱和危险。

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Or perhaps a better way to put it would be they've had death experiences but then have been brought back to life.

或者一种更好的表述方式,是他们经历了死亡体验,但是之后被带回人世

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