The third law asks a robot to protect its own existence so long as that does not conflict with the first or second law.

第三定律要求机器人应保护自身的安全,但不得违反第一、第二定律。

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Having a baby in her unmarried state would have brought shame on the family in China, so she probably kept my existence a secret.

在中国，未婚生子会让家庭感到羞耻，所以她很可能对我的存在保密了。

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Of course, the colored world was not so much a neighborhood as a condition of existence.

当然，有色人种的世界与其说是一个社区，不如说是一种生存所需条件。

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She had died so many years before him that local tradition noted very little of her existence.

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We posit--or the fans of souls posit-- the existence of souls so as to explain something that needs explaining about us.

我们 或者灵魂论的拥护者们假设,灵魂是存在的,这就能解释一些我们自身不解的东西

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So there's a kind of empirical argument for the existence of the soul if we found those kinds of results.

所以如果能找到那样的结果,就能成为灵魂存在的经验主义论据。

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"Most football clubs struggle to afford their own existence so we thought we would put effort into a seven day a week functionality, " he said.

BBC: New Rotherham United stadium nearing completion

The very existence of the gods was inseparable from that of a storm, a sea, a river, or from those powerful human emotions love, rage or sexual passion that seemed momentarily to lift men and women onto a different plane of existence so that they saw the world with new eyes.

NPR: Karen Armstrong: Myths and the Modern World

Part of the way in which the epic legitimizes its ability to talk about so many levels of existence and so many kinds of experience is its style: an ancient authority inheres in that old-time diction, the plushly padded epithets and stately rhythms.

NEWYORKER: Battle Lines