by asking, which of them are so valuable you'd be prepared to do them even if they would introduce what isn't otherwise there, ? namely, the risk of death?

通过问自己，什么事如此有价值,以至于你准备好要去做,即便它们会带来如果不去做就不会有的，也就是，死亡的风险？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Is art important enough to you that you'd be prepared to watch, look at a masterpiece, if you knew that while you were enjoying it you could die, ? but that wouldn't happen otherwise?

艺术有没有重要到,让你准备好去看，去欣赏一件杰作，如果你知道在欣赏它的时候可能会死，但如果不去欣赏就不会死？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Gates said he'd be prepared to forgive the arresting officer "if he told the truth" about what the director of Harvard's W.E.

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Gates said he'd be prepared to forgive the arresting officer "if he told the truth" about what the scholar called "fabrications" in the police report.

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"And if it was an exam, I'd be prepared to accept that I had done badly, but coursework, which has been seen by teachers, is different, " she said.

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