Perhaps struggle unfolds first, not at an economic or social level, but over the appropriation of air, essential to life itself.

也许首先展开的不是在经济或社会层面上的斗争，而是为占有对生命本身必不可少的空气而斗争。

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I feel as if I was becoming sensitive simply to life itself.

我觉得我好像对生命本身变得很灵敏。

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It is a pity that the right to life itself has no relief right in the law of civilized society.

生命权本体无民事救济权，是文明社会法律的遗憾，对死者近亲属的救济水平极低在实践中危害极大。

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To many people,the ability of a cell to reproduce itself is the definition of life itself.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

So the animal may be eaten to satisfy the human hunger for flesh, but the life essence itself belongs to God.

因此，人们可以吃动物，来满足对肉的渴望，但是血属于上帝。

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But somehow or another it's not enough because the otherness, - the mutuality of regard that this story wants to enforce as life-- as life properly lived--is not entailed in and of itself in neatness and busyness.

但是这还不够，因为还有别的东西，比如这个故事还讲了-,生命不只是,限定在简洁与忙碌之中。

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Today's threats are not to life itself, but are still able to trigger our primitive response.

BBC: Stewing in your juices

Mr. Truffaut described it as "a hymn to love, and perhaps a hymn to life itself, " and its optimism still shines with a welcome sincerity.

WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie

What we are talking about is a fundamental human right: health is obviously essential to life itself, as it is pointed out in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights of 2005.

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