Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a life-threatening condition commonly caused by years of smoking.
VOA: special.2010.06.23
Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.
因为如果你考虑一下,自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质,生后即是死。
And yet, in many ways, Socrates diagnoses very powerfully an important condition of modern democratic life with which we are all familiar.
但在很多方面,苏格拉底却也诊断了,非常有力且重要的,现在民主生活条件,那是我们都很熟悉的。
The effect of a disease - or a condition like obesity - can be tallied by a measure called quality-adjusted life years lost.
VOA: standard.2010.08.10
So let's ask ourselves, are there any interaction effects when we talk about the human condition ? that it's life followed by death?"
所以让我们问问自己,当我们讨论,生后即是死的人类处境时,有没有相互影响“
It is a condition for Hobbes of maximum insecurity where in his famous formula " "life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
对霍布斯来说,这是一种使安全感最大化的状态,这种安全感在他有名的公式中被表述,“生命是孤独的,贫穷的,肮脏的,残忍的,短暂的“
And we might think, look, this is one of the negative things about the human condition that we get a taste of life-- nothing more--before it's snatched away.
我们可能会想,瞧,这是关于人类处境的一个负面的内容,我们尝到了生命的滋味-,仅此而已,在它被夺走前。
Hobbes refers to the sovereign as a mortal god, as his answer to the problems of the state of nature, the state, the condition of life being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
君主就是生在凡间的神,霍布斯在回答,什么是国家的本质时这样比喻到,他的国家,他的生命都总是孤独,穷苦,下流,野蛮和短暂的。
That's the human condition--life followed by death.
那就是人类的处境,生后即是死。
To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.
在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质,生后即是死,什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。
How do we get out of it? This is of course for much of the book. What do we do to get out of this state of nature to enter ? a condition of civil society and civilized life?
我们怎么摆脱它呢,所要讲的一个重要问题,我们要怎样才能摆脱自然状态,从而进入文明社会的状态,过上文明的生活呢?
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