Well, never mind, John, it's not a matter of life and death.

好了，别介意，约翰，这不是多么了不起的事情。

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This, in turn, inevitably means bigger grocery bills for consumers, and greater hardship for the millions in countries where food shortages are a matter of life and death.

反过来，这必然意味着消费者要支付更多的食品杂货账单。而在那些食品短缺问题已经关乎生死存亡的国家，这也会导致数百万人将面临更大的困难。

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Yet for many, its presence has been a matter of life and death.

然而，对许多人来说，它的存在事关生死。

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These findings point up the extent to which innovation has become a life-and-death matter for corporations.

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Whether the cause was childhood infection, difficult childbirth, heart attack, or pneumonia, the interval between recognizing that you had a life-threatening ailment and death was often just a matter of days or weeks.

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He's repaired thousands of shoulders, elbows, hips and knees of the sporting elite, helping the likes of Derek Jeter, Jack Nicklaus, Michael Jordan, even the San Diego Chicken--people for whom orthopedic success is a matter of career life and death.

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