这是一种遗憾，大多数人，也许是所有人都死得太早了。

It's a pity that most everybody, or perhaps everybody, dies too soon.

youdao

也许加利福尼亚惠蒂尔学院会有一批人认为，学院的第一个罗兹奖学金获得者来自瓦茨是件令人遗憾的事，我本人却从未比现 在更加为此感到骄傲过。

While a group in Whittier , Calif . , may regard it as unfortunate that its college’s first Rhodes Scholar comes from Watts, I , for my part , could not feel more pride about that than I do now .

youdao

遗憾的是，回答是 也许。

The answer to that question, unfortunately, is maybe.

youdao

It's a pity that most everybody, or perhaps everybody, dies too soon.

这是一种遗憾，大多数人，也许是所有人都死得太早了。

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And from the fact, even if we were to agree with it, that it would've been better if we hadn't been born-- instead of feeling sorry for unborn Larry, Larry perhaps we should envy unborn Larry; that's what the pessimists say-- even if that were true, it wouldn't follow that suicide was an appropriate response.

从这个事实讲，即使我们同意，我们没有出生更好-,与其为没出生的Larry感到遗憾，也许我们应该嫉妒未出生的;,这正是悲观主义者的观点-,即使这是对的，也得不出自杀是适合的回应的结论。

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