Rawls says, well the thing that's obviously wrong about it is that people's life prospects are determined by the accident of birth.

罗尔斯认为，最明显的问题在于人的生活前景决定于出身的偶然性。

Although Browder and Mandl define their nationality differently, both see their identity as a matter of personal choice, not an accident of birth.

虽然布劳德和曼德尔对各自的国籍界定不同，他们都将国籍视为个人选择，而不是由出生地决定的。

If that pathway doesn't exist, because it certainly exists for some people, but it doesn't exist for youbecause of some accident of birth and geography, what happens then?

如果这条路不存在， 因为它对某些人来说肯定存在，但由于某些出生和地理的意外， 它对你来说不存在，那么会发生什么？

There but for the accident of birth, or the grace of God, or the mystery of fate, go I. This spirit of humility is the civic virtue we need now.

如果不是出生的意外， 或者上帝的恩典，或者命运的奥秘， 我就去吧。 这种谦逊的精神是我们现在需要的公民美德。

They would all three have made alternatively good courtesans or good wives not by the accident of birth but through the greater accident of finding their man or not finding him.

她们三人之所以能成为好妓女或好妻子，不是因为出生的偶然性，而是因为找到他们的男人或没有找到他的更大的偶然性。