接受以下条件

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接受以下条件,你就会得到一百万美元:你面前有十支左轮手枪,其中一支装有子弹,你必须从中选择一支,对准自己的脑袋拉动扳机。如果你有幸活下来,就可以拿走钱。你愿意冒这个险吗?

You are offered $1,000,000 for the following act: Before you are ten pistols-only one of which is loaded. You must pick up one of the pistols, point it at your forehead, and pull the trigger. If you can walk away you do so a millionaire. Would you accept the risk?

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如果你的亲人瘫痪在床,非常痛苦,而且只有一个月的活头。他向你索求毒药,以求解脱。你会答应吗?如果这人是你的父亲呢?*

omeone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die, Would you? What if it were your father?

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你上次唱歌给自己听是什么时候的事儿了?当着别人唱呢?

When did you last sing to yourself? to someone else?

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如果你想走多远就多远,一年后还可以返回,并将获得许多受益终生的经验,但没有物质回报,你愿意吗?如果旅程中有50%的生命危险呢?

You have the power to go any distance into the future and, after one year, return to the present with any knowledge you have gained from your experience but with no physical objects. Would you make the journey if it carried a 50 percent risk of death?

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如果你可以任意挑选,你会选谁当你的座上宾?谁当你的密友?谁做你的爱人?*

Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as your dinner guest? as your close friend? as your lover?

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半夜停车时,你不小心刮了一辆保时捷。你确信没人看到这件事,而且刮痕轻微,都不在保险公司的赔付范围内,你会给车主留条说明吗?

While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note?

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