It's mortality that gives it that sense of ephemeral value, but it's also mortality that threatens to cancel it out altogether.

因为逃不过必死的结局所以给了美朝生暮死的价值，但必死性也可能带来全盘出局的威胁。

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RAM is this memory recall or, as you'll soon find in problems Set One, that's used for ephemeral purposes.

内存是随机存储器，你们将,在习题集1中发现，它们用来短暂存储的目的。

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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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