In other words, you are an end and not a means to me unless in fact I'm exploiting you and instrumentalizing you. Right?

换言之，对我来说，你不是手段，而是目的,除非我在剥削你，或把你工具化，是吧？

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Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

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So this suggests that these tests ain't just for economic funding games that they can actually be useful as probes of symptom profiles in mental health issues.

所以这些试验并不仅仅适用于经济,它们也可以在精神健康领域,作为病情监测的手段。

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For example, you all know that the only treatment for some diseases is to get an organ transplant: a kidney transplant, or a liver transplant is the only life extending intervention that can be done for some kinds of diseases.

你们都知道,有些疾病只能,通过器官移植来治疗,肾移植,肝移植是在某些疾病的治疗中,唯一能够延长生命的手段

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