Because if we recognize that there are things in the world which have intrinsic value and importance and what we call beauty.

因为如果我们承认世界上有这么,我们称为“美“的东西，其本质上就无价且珍贵。

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Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

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There seems to be something to that and yet Hobbes certainly regards life as a precious good, perhaps the most precious good of all, and he writes with a lively sense of how fragile and endangered life is.

看起来有点关系,霍布斯肯定珍视生命，可能把它当作最珍贵的东西，他用一种活泼感写出,人生的脆弱和危险。

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It's perfectly fine, but they envy us for our finite lifespans, because what we've got and they don't have is something that's for each individual rare-- something that's not lasting, something that's precious in that way.

不朽很好，但他们羡慕我们的有限寿命，因为我们有而他们没有的是,对每个人来说稀有的东西-,不会永远持久的东西，从那个层面讲珍贵的东西。

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