In this case, teaching them what not to do could easily mean the difference between life and death.

在这种情形下，教育他们“不要做什么”简直就是意味着生与死的差别。

youdao

Sure, you have lots of numbers available to you, but what do they really mean and how can you use them effectively?

当然，您有许多数字可用，但是它们真正意味着什么，以及如何有效使用它们？

youdao

But then you ask them, 'What do you mean, you feel really bad?'

可是当你问他们，'你到底是什么意思，你真的觉得很不好吗？ '？

youdao

What do you mean they're going to shoot them?

你说他们要枪决她们是什么意思

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Because once you actually push people,to pin them down, what do you mean by it,you end up with something that's either just not true, or not interesting,or not necessary, or not particularly unique to death.

因为你一旦逼问他们这到底是什么含义，得到的东西既不会是真实的，也不会是必要和有趣的，也不会是对于死亡来说独特的。

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Gone will be the days of asking someone for their blackberry pin (only for them to say what do you mean), navigating the web on a screen that you can barely see and taking photos with a state of the art camera phone (if it was 2009).

FORBES: Bye Bye Blackberry