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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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.

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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.

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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.

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