However those who are in favor of life-extending measures argue that life under any circumstances is better than death and that the duty of doctors is always to extend life as long as possible.

但是赞成采取延长生命的方法的人认为在任何情况下生总比死好；一个医生的责任就是尽可能延长一个人的生命。

I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me.

我不知道这是不是我的特性，但是，当我守灵时，如果没有发狂的或绝望的哀悼者跟我分担守灵的义务，我是很少有不快乐的时候的。

When millions of children starve to death or perish from a mosquito bite, we're not doing our duty in the world.

千百万儿童因饥饿致死或因蚊虫叮咬而夭折，就意味着我们未能在这个世界上履行自己的责任。

Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in the heart of man.

马吕斯拿了那张纸，紧紧捏在手里，那并不是出自他对父亲的孝心，而是出自对一般死者的那种泛泛的敬意，那种敬意在大家的心里总是那么有威力。

I am reminded of how in one of my second brother's letters he was complaining in somewhat sanscritised phraseology of being worked to death tied by the neck to his post of duty.

我记起在我二哥的某封信里，他用某种梵语的措辞向父亲抱怨说他忙得焦头烂额，连脖子都快要被工作套住了。