He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

The one point of view takes the philosophic life, the examined life, to be the one most worth living; the other takes the political life, the life of the citizen engaged in the business of deliberating, legislating, making war and peace as the highest calling for a human being.

一个观点为采纳哲思生活，经反省的人生才值得活;,另一个观点为采纳政治生活，公民的生命并入,商议，立法事务，宣战与追求和平,成为最高的人性召唤。

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And on the other hand," he says, "if I say that this even happens to be a very great good for a human being that is to make speeches every day about virtue and that the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being, " you will still less be persuaded by me."

但另一方面“他继续说，“如果我说这碰巧,也对人类贡献极大,透过每天演说美德,及没有反省的生命,不值得活，你们仍然不太可能会被我说服“

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It's important for you to feel in your life that you're someone, that you're a human being.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

A natural person refers to a human being, so it's $5 million for natural persons and $25 million for institutions.

一个自然人指一个人,一个自然人需要500万美元,而一个机构则需要2500万美元

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"For example." "we cannot determine if a drug is going to work in a human being, and be safe in a human being by testing that drug in cell culture models.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

If he is beneath the polis it means he's beneath what it is to a human being, and that tells you just how potent is this concept of a community for the Greeks and it emerges in its own way from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

反过来,如果一个卑微到无法进入城邦的人,那也就意味着他作为人的意义同样卑微,由此可见,集体的概念,是多么的深入希腊人的心中,在《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中,便揭示了这一点

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Hobbes' individuality or individualism is closely connected to this conception of a human being or human well-being as success in the competition for the goods of life.

霍布斯的个性或者个人主义,是与人类或人类福祉的概念紧密相连的,就像在为好生活的奋斗当中,获得了胜利。

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Doesn't Aristotle call man the rational animal, the being with logos, suggesting that all human beings have a desire for knowledge and the desire to cultivate their minds and live as free persons.

亚里士多德不是称人类为理性的动物吗，具有，Logos，的生物，并暗示所有的人类,都有求知欲,且想要陶冶他的身心,并过自由的生活。

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