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

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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

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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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