make the life that we've got as valuable as it can be,

让我们的生活尽量有价值
to see it as valuable as it can be.

尽可能看到它的价值
But there's a rather different approach.

但这里还有一种完全不同的思想
That alternative approach says,

这一思想说的是
yes, we're going to lose life and that's horrible.

是的我们会失去生命而且这很可怕
But it's only horrible insofar as you think of life as something

但只有当你认为失去生命是坏事时
that it's bad to lose.

它才可怕
After all, if we were to decide that

如果我们认为
life wasn't really a valuable gift,

生命不是有价值的东西
if it wasn't really something worth embracing,

不是件值得留恋的东西
and something that we could turn into something full of value,

不是我们获得最大价值的媒介
then its loss wouldn't actually be a loss.

那么失去生命就不是什么损失