and they can't survive on that.

他们不可能只靠着这点儿工资过活。

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But it's possible,I suggested, that we really shouldn't focus on the question, what does it take for me to survive?

但我认为，很可能，那根本不是我们应该重视的问题，比起讨论我要存活下去需要什么条件？

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For me to survive till Tuesday presumably is for there to be somebody some person alive lecturing to you on Tuesday.

我活到下星期二是假定,有人活着,下星期二给你们上课。

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Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

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It rankles, but on the other hand, these regulations survive because the reality is that people are victimized all the time and we can't just allow companies to act in secrecy.

这让人不爽,但是从另一个角度,金融监管制度之所以长期存在,是因为现实中,大众一直都是牺牲品,我们不能任由那些公司在幕后操纵

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So it might be that the whole question we've been focusing on, What does it take to survive?

也许我们一直关注的问题，存活下去的标准是什么？

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So, as I say, at first glance you might think to get clear on the answer, "Do I or might I or could I survive my death?"

正如我所说,起初,你只是想弄清楚这个答案,我究竟能否幸免一死

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It seems plausible to think that whether or not a person can survive or continue to exist after the death of his or her body should depend on how he's built, what he's made of, what his or her parts are.

这似乎可以理解成,一个人的肉体死亡后,能否幸存或继续存在,是取决于他的构造,他的组成部分,他或她各部分的构件

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