For the poorest people, life was merely a matter of survival.

对最穷的人来说，生活只是争取活命。

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But in many areas of our lives, creativity can be a matter of survival.

但在我们生活的很多领域里，是否有创造性可能生死攸关。

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It's a matter of survival, one Indian transgender woman explains: never make eye contact with anyone potentially threatening.

对于那些可能危及你安全的人，眼神交流都该避免，一位印度的变性女性解释道，因为性命攸关。

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The Kremlin leader says modernization is a matter of national survival.

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It is a matter of survival, a fact of life viscerally understood in Japan.

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For factory owners, the ability to recruit workers is a matter of survival.

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Honda's ability to juggle these technologies successfully is perhaps a matter of survival.

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