来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：有关食物的心理学、生物学和政治学 第19集 第19集》

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  or sent you a photocopy of a newspaper article
  或者给你发了一篇新闻报道的影印件
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  with the same kind of story.
  描述着类似的事件
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  Unfortunately, I'm in a position
  不幸的是 我就是研究这个的
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  where I could tell you story after story, after story
  我可以给你们讲述一个又一个
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  of thirteen year old boys who were playing together
  十三岁的小男孩们 在一起玩耍时
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  and one of them got killed by gunfire.
  其中一个被抢打死的故事
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  You become the depository of these terribly sad stories.
  我积攒了很多这类可怕而悲伤的故事
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  It's terribly sad on an individual basis,
  就个人而言这是悲伤的事情
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  but it's terribly sad on a population basis,
  但就整个社会而言这是可悲的事情
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  because I say that they're foreseeable,
  因为我说了这些是可预见的
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  and if they're foreseeable
  既然它们是可预见的
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  then it seems that they also should be preventable.
  那么它们也应该是可避免的