It wants to live a life of a certain magnitude, but with a view to achieving the ultimate desired end, which is to return to an inorganic state on its own terms.

它们希望生命有意义，但是还是带这完成最终愿望的心态，那就是回到最初的无生命状态。

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Suppose we put somebody in a state of suspended animation, cool their body down so that the various metabolic processes come to an end.

假设我们让某人,进入假死状态，将他们的身体降温,所有的代谢过程都停止。

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And secondly, that the head of each state would have the right to determine the religion of the state, again thus putting an end to the claims of a single universalist church.

第二，每个国家的首脑,都有权决定,国家的宗教，因此终结了,由一种宗教统治全国的局面。

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So I'm guessing now, i won't make you show your hands, because it's probably embarrassing, but what is the state of your dorm rooms, your shared dorm rooms, at the end of the semester or the end of the school year?

我在想,我就不叫你们举手了,这挺尴尬的,到期末或者年末的时候,你们寝室卫生怎么样

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And so, if you rewind the tape and play it again over and over and over again, each time you set things up the very same way they must move or transform or change or end up in the very same state.

所以,如果你将一盘磁带,反反复复地播放,每次你播放的内容,从头到尾的起承转合一定是,绝对一致的

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First, the Treaty declared that the individual sovereign state would henceforth become the highest level of authority; you might say, putting an end once and for all " to the universalist claims of the Holy Roman Empire.

第一，条约宣称,各个主权国家,都因此而成为各自国家里最高的权力;,永远终结了,普遍意义上的“神圣罗马帝国。

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