They symbolize a sequence, a battlefield, an order, an altar, transmigration of living and non-living beings, or life and death in dumb silence.

它们是队列、整体、战场、秩序，它们是祭坛，是生物与非生物的轮回，它们是寂静中的死与生。

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There may be some matters of life and death or highest principle, which might justify such a risk, but there aren't many things that fall in this category.

也许有一些关乎生死或最高原则的事情可以证明这种冒险是合情合理的，但属于这一类别的事情并不多。

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Its successor, on the other hand, appeared to pit key socioeconomic groups in a life-or-death struggle and was widely seen by contemporary observers as marking a historical departure.

另一方面，它的继任者似乎让关键的社会经济群体陷入生死斗争，被当代观察家广泛视为历史背离的标志。

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Vaccination is a life or death question for poor people and if you can vaccinate a child to prevent a disease from happening it is a lot more cost effective than it is to treat that disease afterwards."

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Jacob Milgrom sees a moral message at the base of this complex, symbolic picture. And that is that humans and humans alone are responsible for the rein of wickedness and death or the rein of righteousness and life.

米尔格罗姆在这这个复杂的基础上看出了一个道德上的信息，一副象征性的图画，那就是人类,应该单独承担起驾驭邪恶与死亡,正义和生存之间的责任。

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Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

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He wondered why the U.S. Justice Department prosecutes statistical disparities between men and women or blacks and whites in employment and housing, but not in matters of life or death?

FORBES: America's Male Only Child Policy?

Whether judged insane and then probably committed for life or judged sane and probably sentenced to death, let us not forget that this horrific, heinous example of random gun violence should not have happened.

FORBES: Holmes Wants to Plead Insanity For Colorado Theater Shooting. What Does Insanity Mean?

Mr Bryant says any conviction on a murder charge would carry a sentence of life imprisonment or death, and that he will not agree to charge Mr Rideau with the lesser crime of manslaughter.

ECONOMIST: Louisiana faces up to the old question