An expert on nuclear proliferation at the RAND Corporation in the United States, Brian Jenkins,says because of its proximity to Somalia and its close ties to the West, Kenya is vulnerable to the worst-case scenario, where an al-Qaida terrorist unleashes a "dirty bomb" in Nairobi causing the death of thousands.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

If that was the case, then disregarding, always disregarding, the facts about death might well be the appropriate response.

如果是这样的话，那无视，一直无视，关于死亡的事实可能是合适的回应。

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Well, if that's the right thing to say about the France case, then why not say the same thing about the near-death experience case?

如果关于法国的例子是对的,那为什么关于濒死体验,我们就不能得出相同的结论呢

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Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

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In this case, death from heart disease and what you see here, and I'll tell you what relative risk is in just a minute, but this is basically risk for disease over on this axis and here its weight.

在这幅图里是心脏病致死的,我会简短地介绍一下相对风险的定义,Y轴表示患病风险,X轴表示体重

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Now, that being the case, we have to worry then that because of the unpredictability of death that our lives may not have the ideal shape.

既然是这样，那么我们会变得担心起来,由于存在死亡的不可预见性,我们的生命线可能不会是理想的形状。

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But although I've been at pains to say this is the fundamental bad thing about death, I think it's arguable that-- I think one could make the case that this isn't the only bad thing about death, even if we're focusing on why is death bad for me?

但是虽然我一直在努力阐述,这是死亡的基本坏处，我觉得-,人们有理由认为,这不是死亡的唯一坏处，就算我们重点思考为何死亡对我是坏事？

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Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?

因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕？

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