What makes something scripture,though,is that it's taken to be authoritative and holy by some particular community.

圣典之所以为圣典是由于,它被某一特定团体当作是权威而神圣的。

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It makes it harder to plan what the best way to live my life would be.

它让我更加困难地去计划,最美好的生活。

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What makes it so much better to be alive now in terms of your likelihood to die of an infectious disease than it did in London in 1665?

是什么让生活变得更好呢,从传染病死亡率的角度来讲,与1665年的伦敦相比

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But the first one is simply,is death bad, as we typically take it to be,and, ? if so,what is it about it that makes it bad?

但第一个问题就是，死亡是坏的吗，就像我们通常认为的那样，如果是，是什么让它有坏处？

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