"We discovered 150 or so genetic markers that can highly predict whether or not a person has the genetic propensity to live to extreme old age."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Should I live or should I shoot myself?"--properly speaking, "To be or not to be?"

我是该活着还是该打死自己？“的时候，会想到用得体的话说应该是“生存还是毁灭？“

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Is it worth continuing to live, ? or is it not worth continuing to live?

是否值得继续活下去，或者是否不值得继续活下去？

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Again, a large cosmopolitan state may allow each individual the freedom to live as he or she likes, but this is not freedom as Aristotle understands it.

一个大都会国家,可能会允许每一位个体,过他们想要过的生活的自由，但这并非,亚里士多德所认知的自由。

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We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

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