Any of them might kill him if they knew they couldn't take him. But they would try to take him first.

那些国家都知道要是得不到他就一定要置他于死地，不过他们更愿意先试着抓他。

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When people find out that “I study ants, bees and other crawly things, the first thing they ask is do I know how to kill them.”

当人们得知“我研究蚂蚁、蜜蜂，以及其他令人毛骨悚然的生物时，他们的第一反应是问我如何杀死它们”。

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One potential medicine in development is a first-in-class immunotherapy designed to target specific cancer cells and kill them, then activate the patient's general immune system to destroy cancer.

一种在研药物是一种一流免疫疗法，设计目标是特异癌症细胞并且消灭它们，然后激活患者全身免疫系统消灭肿瘤。

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Such men have no other rule, but that of force and violence," listen to this, "So may be treated as beasts of prey those dangerous and noxious creatures that will be sure to destroy to you " if you fall into their power", so kill them first.

这种人除强力和暴力的法则之外，没有其他法则“,注意这里，“因此可以被当作猛兽，危险和有害的动物看待,要落在它们的爪牙之内,就一定会遭到毁灭，所以先下手为强。

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