Sendak's parents would sometimes talk about the dead family members, especially children, who were not lucky enough to survive like Maurice had.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Who were the organisms that would survive those conditions and then contribute to the gene pool?

什么生物体可以在那样的条件下存活,这又会导致基因库怎样的改变

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It's easy to see how you might think, how you might worry about the badness of death, if you thought you would survive your death.

如果你认为经历过死亡依然能存活，你会怎么想象和担心死亡的坏处，就很容易看出来了。

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Soon,he recognized that the settlers would need more supplies and weapons to survive.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

If evolution wired us up simply to survive, then it's a puzzle why animals would relate positively to other animals.

如果进化仅让我们生存，那么这是个谜题,为什么动物之间确定有联系。

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Changes that helped them survive would continue.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

But even if you do survive-- let's the ground floor-- even if you do survive, you would lead a life of constant frustration-- refusing to accept something that is there whether you like it or not.

即使你幸存下来-,比如你在一楼-,就算你真得幸存下来，你的生活将是处处受挫-,拒绝接受现实事物,不论你喜欢与否。

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Matt Rota says if oil made its way into the marsh, a lot of the plant and animal life would not survive.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

Those people would bank their calories, survive the next famine, contribute to the gene pool, and thereby create what we have today which are organisms, humans, who very much like the kind of diets that are creating problems.

这些人储存能量以保证,在下一次饥荒时得以幸存,使他们的基因保留在了基因库中,从而造就今天的生物体,即人类,人类非常喜欢这类饮食,从而引发了很多问题

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Scientists hope the ban would allow bluefin to recover. But while international trade could be outlawed, officials say a robust black market could survive.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

But we can think of cases in which I would survive, but I don't have that extra thing, and so I wouldn't have everything that matters to me.

但是让我们设想我活下去时，但是失去了这些东西的例子，我就失去了一切对我来说重要的东西。

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Of course we gonna ask most particularly what would it be for a thing like that to survive the death of the body.

当然我们特别还要问,想这样一个东西,肉体不死会怎么样。

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What would it mean for me to survive my death?

从死亡中存活对于我来说意味了什么？

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We see novel things all the time and if we were not capable of learning and making guesses, educated guesses, about these novel things we would not be able to survive.

我们经常会碰到新事物,如果我们不能学习，不能猜测，不能纠正对新事物猜测,我们就无法生存。

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So if you were starving and you really needed energy, that is your body needed calories, it needed usable energy in order to survive, the broccoli's not going to do you much good and the brownie would be terrific.

假如你快饿死了,实在需要能量,那是你的身体需要卡路里,身体需要可利用的能量去支撑,花椰菜这时就没多大帮助了,布朗尼蛋糕才是首选

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If you have a brain, and a body, and a metabolism that wants calories, it wants fat, it wants sugar, it wants a broad variety of food so you can survive, that would be good if you lived in certain parts of the world today.

如果你有大脑,有身体,有新陈代谢,这些都需要能量,就需要脂肪,需要糖,需要极其多样食物,你才能活下来,世界上只有部分地区可以保证这些

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What would be to survive?

生存是什么？

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