"Whilst we might be cutting back, China is increasing its spending, India is increasing its spending on defense."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

So it might be that the whole question we've been focusing on, What does it take to survive?

也许我们一直关注的问题，存活下去的标准是什么？

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So I put the electron configurations and actually drew it on an energy diagram here, so we can actually think about why this might be happening.

所以我写出了它们的电子排布,并画成了能级图的形式，这样我们就可以好好想一想,这个问题发生的原因。

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If we want to worry about when,if ever, is an abortion justified,it might be worth getting clear on, when do creatures like us start?

如果我们想要弄清楚，堕胎在什么时候是可以接受的，就要弄清楚，我们这样的生命是何时开始的？

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The president was pretty remarkable in keeping in his head the various intelligence streams we are going on, the conspiracies that might be out there.

总统在记录情报方面,非常厉害,他记得不同的情报，还有可能存在的阴谋。

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One of them was Bear Stearns so I don't know whether they're still on the list maybe they are maybe they're not; we might be down to nineteen.

其中一家是贝尔斯登，所以我不知道,它是否还在那名单上,也许在，也许不在了；,所以我们也许可以说名单上有十九家。

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Controversial in the sense that maybe it's not a good thing to do, or there might be some limits on what we want to do there in terms of integrating machines with people's brains.

它的争议性在于这可能并不是一件好事,在我们想往人脑中植入机械时,会不会受到某种限制

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He seems, in this way, to anticipate what we might think of as the modern welfare state that public assistance be provided, and the poor, not simply depend on the private goodwill of the others.

如此看来,霍布斯已经预见到了,我们现代社会国家福利制度的出现，穷人不只依靠个人的善意施舍度日,更多的是求助于国家提供的福利保障。

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Well a calorie technically--and this is again, not something that we would ever quiz you on but I just thought you might be interested to know-- that it's the energy required to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade, and we'll talk in a minute about you might go about measuring that.

理论上一卡路里,我重复下,这不是考试内容,但我想你们会感兴趣,一卡路里,是将一克水提升1℃所需要的热量,过会儿我们会讲如何测量

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So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near- death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds-- this would be the bad notion of philosophy-- on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

因此想要在哲学基础上,驳回这种诉诸濒死体验,这可不是一个好的哲学观,从哲学基础上来看,我想那是不明智的

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