Today it is a museum. Inside are precious artifacts from the family's daily life, including scraps of hand-written poetry and the manuscript of a polonaise written by young Frederic when he was eight-years-old.

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And so, arguably, the fact that life is precious, that it won't endure, could actually increase its value for us.

所以，可以说，生命是珍贵的，它将不再这个事实，事实上可能增加了其对我们来说的价值。

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Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

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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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It makes our life fragile, ephemeral, and as a result of that, more precious.

它让我们的生命脆弱，短暂，因此而更珍贵。

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