And not what we've got now, where you live after a mere drop of 50 or 80 or 100 years.

也不是现在的情况，活到50，80，百岁时就要死去。

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The mere fact of labeling Trans fat had a big impact on the food industry wanting to take it out.

列出反式脂肪对于食品行业,停止使用反式脂肪有重大影响

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It's clear that we all do believe in the possibility, indeed, more than a mere possibility, the actuality of meetings that occur without us.

显然我们都相信这种可能，且不仅仅是一种可能，会议确实在我们不在的情况下举行了。

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But even still when we think of it, if I am a member of the money making class, I am still more than simply a bundle of desires and appetites, just as a member of the warrior class would be clearly more than mere thumos or mere spiritedness.

但即使在我们思考之后，如果我是商人阶级的一员，我仍然不会,只有欲望与渴求，就像如果我是战士阶级的一员,将肯定不会,只有，Thumos，或说意志。

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