1. She was held back by some sense of self-preservation.
一种自我保护意识使她没有贸然行动。
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2. The police have the same human urge for self-preservation as the rest of us.
警察和我们其他人一样，都有自我保护的人类本能。
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3. Robots must act in self-preservation, unless doing so conflicts with laws 1 or 2.
在不违反法则一或法则二的情况下，机器人必须自我保护。
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4. Except at harvest-time, when self-preservation requires a temporary truce, the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war.
除了在收获季节，当自我保护需要暂时休战时，帕尔比部落总是进行私下或公开的战争。
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5. It's self-preservation.
它是自我保护。
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6. Now I admire his self-preservation.
现在，我开始敬佩他懂得适可为止。
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7. Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation.
大自然又在这里玩弄她保存自己的老把戏了。
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8. "I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation," he reflects.
“我要生存，我要自我保护，这就是我的本能，”他会这样想。
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9. It may seem cruel, but the goal is nothing short of self-preservation.
或许这看似很残酷，但背叛的背后，也许隐藏着需要自我保护的苦衷。
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10. It may seem cruel, but the goal is nothing short of self-preservation-survival.
——short of这里指除了什么以外，即除了自保也就是生存之外任何都不是目的。
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11. Rufus: Telling a woman you like her clothes isn't lying. It's self-preservation.
鲁弗斯：告诉女人你喜欢她的着装不是说谎，而是自保。
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12. But the strongest force propelling environmentalism among Republicans is self-preservation.
不过，驱使共和党人竞相追逐环保主义的最强动力是本党生存需要。
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13. It is not just fear of ridicule that restrains my packing, but a sense of self-preservation.
我控制自己的行李量，并不是害怕被人嘲笑，而是一种自我保护。
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14. Instead of worrying about his own self-preservation, he worries about hers. That's being in love.
不担心自己的自我保护，他担心她的，这就是恋爱。
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15. When the horned lizard is approached by a hungry foe, it USES an equally unusual method of self-preservation.
当饥饿的敌人靠近角蜥蜴时，它用一种不同寻常的方法自保。
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16. The outcomes are unwanted, but the often unconscious and underlying intent was love, self-preservation, and feeling good.
谁都不想要这样的后果，但无意识的潜台词经常是爱、自我保护和感觉舒服。
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17. The second thought was fear, channelled into self-preservation: I jumped out of bed and grabbed my clothes from the floor.
第二个念头就是恐惧，继而变成了自我保护：从床上蹦出，抓过地上的衣服。
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18. He's thinking much more in terms of self-preservation and what's right for this son and his girlfriend and for Michael.
他所想到的基本都是明哲保身，以及如何让他的儿子、他的女友和迈克一切平安。
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19. This can destabilize the marriage: When his mother and his wife are battling, a man's self-preservation instinct tells him to hide.
而这可能会破坏婚姻的稳定：当母亲和妻子开战，男人自我保护的本能会告诉他能躲多远是多远。
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20. Using aliens and spaceships, District 9 actually gives new perspective on humans-their ugliness, racism, and greedy self-preservation.
外星人，太空船，但第九区却为我们呈现了一个关于人类的新视角——丑陋、种族主义、贪婪的自保主义。
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21. When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
当我们不再只想到我们自己、我们的自卫本能，我们就经历了觉悟上的一次真正的英勇变化。
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22. Lonely people are more likely to perceive ambiguous social cues negatively, and enter a self-preservation mindset - worsening the problem.
孤独的人更有可能对模糊的社交提示做出负面解读，并进入一种自我保护的思维模式——从而让问题变得更糟。
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23. Other tidbits include basic advice regarding self-preservation, such as never traversing at night or refraining from "passing judgment" when consuming alcohol.
其他小的方面还包括自我保护的基本忠告，如勿夜行、勿借酒下断言等。
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24. The second thought was fear, channelled into self-preservation: I jumped out of bed and grabbed my clothes from the floor. It didn't occur to me to arrest him.
第二个念头就是恐惧，继而变成了自我保护：从床上蹦出，抓过地上的衣服。
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25. The second thought was fear, channelled into self-preservation: I jumped out of bed and grabbed my clothes from the floor. It didn't occur to me to arrest him.
