我问他是什么让他坚持活着，他向正在清理厨房的志愿者们做了个手势。

When I ask what keeps him going in life, he gestures towards the volunteers who are clearing up the kitchen.

youdao

同性恋的男人或女人是他们军中的伴侣早上起来的理由，战斗到明天的理由，也是他们坚持活着回来的理由。

Gay men and women give their military partners a reason to get up in the morning, a reason to fight through to the next day, a reason to stay alive to come home.

youdao

在第二个家庭中，另一个已故妇女的儿子说：“如果我没有坚持让我母亲去佛罗里达，她今天应该还活着。”

At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, "If only I hadn't insisted on my mother's going to Florida, she would be alive today."

youdao

.. So I'm going to restrict myself, at least when I think about it, to versions that say, it's the life of a person per se that's valuable.

所以我会坚持，至少是对我来说，我会坚持，作为人活着的本身是有价值的这种观点。

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