But on the other hand, in addition to the assisting training and advising, there is also the social-civic as well as the humanitarian aspect of the undertaking."

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Perhaps the claim then is that dying is not something that can be done in that way as a joint undertaking.

也许这个说法本来的意思是，死亡并不是,可以通过共同行为完成的事情。

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Walking is something you can do with others, in the sense that it can be a joint activity,a joint undertaking.

走路是一件你能和他人一起做的事，这是一个共同合作的行为和事件。

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The promise of the concessional loans further China's investment in the continent, aimed at improving such infrastructure as roads and energy production as well as developing agriculture and undertaking health and education initiatives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

You could imagine that this is a monumental sort of undertaking in a number of different ways.

你可以想象,从各方面来看,这都是一次里程碑式的实验

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"We are,as you may expect, encouraged by these results and look forward to undertaking further research to understand what it means, why the vaccine regimen was effective in some volunteers and how we might build upon these results in our collective research,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Theory is very often a purely speculative undertaking.

理论通常是假设性的。

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This is why political philosophy is always and necessarily a potentially disturbing undertaking.

这就是为何政治哲学总是,且必然是一项具有潜在困扰的工作。

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So if somebody comes along and says No,no,everybody dies alone, and dying as part of a joint undertaking is impossible, they're just saying something false.

如果有人说，不，大家都是孤独而死的，死亡作为共同行动是不可能的，他们就错了。

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That's only going to be true if dying as a joint undertaking is impossible.

这只能在共同死亡是不可能的条件下才是真的。

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Now admittedly,dying as a joint undertaking is far rarer than dying alone.

无可否认共同死亡比单独死亡少见得多。

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Even if you're in a room or a battlefield where people are dying at the same time as you, to your left and your right, dying is not and cannot be something that is a joint undertaking.

即便你处在房间或者战场上,有人和你同时同地死亡，就在你的身边死亡，死亡也不是你们共同完成的。

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On the battlefield,even if Smith and Jones are both dying, it's not like this is some sort of cooperative, joint undertaking.

在战场上，Smith和Jones同时死亡，但是并不是在某种合作下，同时进行的。

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