Is that something that increases the badness of death, ? or does it reduce its significance somewhat?

这是否是某种增加了死亡坏处的事物，或者是否多少减小了些死亡的重要性？

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So, I already said what the number of square miles that were increased, but it increases from six to sixteen million of the population.

我已经提过了领土扩大的面积有多少,而人口从六百万增加到一千六百万

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All right. So again, what I've been asking us to think about are various aspects of death that might contribute to either increase or perhaps in certain ways reduce somewhat the badness of death.

好了，再一次，我们要考虑的是,死亡的各种,可能导致增加或者,在某些方面多少减少死亡坏处的方面。

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