People live in a compact between the dead, the living and the unborn, and the value of the thought experiment is that it reminds us of the power posterity holds over our lives.

人们生活在死者、生者以及子孙后代所订立的契约中。 做出这一尝试性思考的价值就在于它让我们明白后辈对我们的生活所产生的影响。

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The latter can be thought of as sitting at the top of the autonomic computing management value chain (as you'll see in Figure 1).

可以认为自主管理应用程序位于自主计算管理价值链的顶部（如 图 1 中所示）。

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The utility of those qualities, it may be thought, is what first recommends them to us; and, no doubt, the consideration of this, when we come to attend to it, gives them a new value.

可以这么认为，最初就是这些品质的实用性给了我们启发，我们一旦这么想了，就赋予了这些实用性一种新的价值。

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They thought the value of the dollar was too high.

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We've thought about the value of life in isolation; we've been, in effect, thinking about the value of death in isolation.

我们单独考虑过生的价值;,我们，实际上，一直在单独考虑死的价值。

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And we might be attracted to the thought that the value of life is increased by its very preciousness.

我们可能会被这种想法所吸引,那就是生命的价值是因为它的珍贵而增长的。

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Back in the heyday of using trusts for shifting income, if a trust contained one of those powers, like the power of the grantor to withdraw property from the trust and replace if with property of equal value, someone who thought the trust was being used to shift income, would consider that power to be a defect.

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As long as there was uncertainty about the long-term value of the Swiss franc, speculators who thought the currency undervalued had an incentive to buy francs in order to profit from the appreciation, pushing the price up in the process.

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Contra Ross, the takeaway here is that the economic value of Facebook is a little less than people thought in the beginning of the week, but still an awful lot.

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