And also if you have a surplus, and that's a desirable thing to do, you can sell it.

同时如果你还有剩余,这是很理想的情况,你可以卖掉它们

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We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

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This puts the Administration in a further logical bind, as the policy is clearly grounded in the notion that monetary incentives work: make a desirable thing free, and people will demand more of it.

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Another thing that drives up prices is closing a desirable mine.

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