The real question posed by the "Torchwood" scenario is: what would happen to all our death-defying systems if there were no more death?

《火炬木》的剧情提出的真正问题是：如果再也没有死亡，那么所有我们这些抵御死亡的系统又会发生什么？

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Well, we want happy users and, if we are obsessive about quality, it will bother us to our death bed to release something so obviously broken.

是的，我们希望用户满意，如果我们过分追求质量的话，也许这个问题将纠缠我们终生。

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Death is one of the great taboos in our culture.

在我们的文化中，“死亡”是一大忌。

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Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the death of police officers, soldiers and civilians.

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Orthodox Christianity teaches us to put aside our concerns for the body when we consider our death.

正统基督教教导我们,死亡时不要在乎肉体。

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Well, if we see that our death is inevitable and we really internalize that fact, perhaps that would reduce the badness of it.

如果我们清楚死去无可避免,并且真正承认这个事实，也许这样会减少它的坏处。

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While the company failed, I felt that I fought well, and that our death was not in vain.

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They have been predicting our death for five years.

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Our own death, however, we seldom think about or plan for.

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