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You'll remember that in his search for immortality Utnapishtim Gilgamesh sought out Utnapishtim, the one human who had been granted immortality.
他对永生的追求,吉尔伽美什找到，唯一可以长生不老的人类。
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I should have read it a lecture or two ago when I started talking about immortality, but I misplaced it.
我应该在一两节课之前读它,即在我开始谈论永生的时候，但是我当时把它放错地方了。
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Immortality. One way is through your family and its sons who carry forward the family name, so to speak.
永垂不朽,一条路就是通过你的家庭,让儿子们来继承家族的姓氏,也就是说
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Second of all the motif of guards who block access to the tree of life suggests that no humans have access to immortality and the pursuit of immortality is futile.
第二点，那些阻止人类接近生命树的守卫,暗示着，任何人类关于永生的尝试,最后都是徒劳一场。
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You ask what I am thinking. So help me, God, an immortality of fame.
你问我在想什么，愿上帝帮助我，我想永垂史册。
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So even if immortality would be bad, there would be certain things you could do that could end it.
所以即使不朽是不好的，你也能做某些事去结束它。
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After all, this argument really did show the immortality of the soul, why would he need to offer a further argument?
毕竟如果这个论证真正的,解释了灵魂的不朽，他为何还要提出进一步的论证呢？
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And perhaps unsurprisingly, what he does with his friends up until that moment is, he argues about the immortality of the soul.
也许,一点也不足为奇的是,直到生命的最后一刻,他都在和朋友们,探讨灵魂的不朽性
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Secondly, he had sons. Now, this has to do with the Greek idea about immortality and mortality.
第二,他有儿子,这和希腊人关于,永生和死亡的观念有关
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The story of the first human pair in the Garden of Eden, which is in Genesis 2 and 3 has clear affinities with the Epic of Gilgamesh, that's a Babylonian and Assyrian epic in which a hero embarks on this exhausting search for immortality.
创世纪2至3，里，伊甸园亚当和夏娃的故事,与《吉尔迦美什史诗》有着密切的联系，《吉尔迦美什史诗》是巴比伦人和亚叙人的,一个英雄竭尽全力追求永生的故事。
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So perhaps the best form of life would be not immortality; I think that would be not particularly desirable.
所以生命的最好形式,并不是永生;,那并非十分诱人。
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If we grant that to Plato, he thinks we've got an argument for the immortality of the soul.
如果我们同意柏拉图这个观点,他认为我们就有了支持灵魂不灭性的论据
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Or, and this is the same: in his unconscious, every one of us is convinced of his immortality.
或者这样说也一样，潜意识里，每个人都相信自己是永生的。
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The purpose of that dialogue, of that philosophical work, is to argue for the immortality of the soul.
该哲学著作中,所有对话的目的,是要论证灵魂不朽
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So before I just leave the subject of immortality, let me conclude with some words of wisdom from a former Miss USA contestant.
所以在结束永生这个话题之前，我就用,前美国小姐参赛者的箴言总结它吧。
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In the light of human mortality, the disinterest of the gods, the chanciness of life, what can man do to achieve happiness and immortality?
既然人生苦短,又没有什么神灵保佑,生死都只是随机事件,那我们怎么才能达到幸福和不朽呢
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And so, armed with a soul, as it were, there's at least the possibility of immortality.
因此，拥有一个灵魂，实际上，至少有永生的可能性。
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The worry gets raised by Cebes who says even if we grant the soul is nearly indestructible, that's not good enough to get us immortality.
赛贝斯提出了他的担心，他说,即使我们同意灵魂几乎不可摧毁，也不足以让我们不朽。
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and where do they get the idea of the immortality of the soul?
那灵魂不朽的观点又是如何而来的？
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As you know from reading your Pairy, the sigh reading has dialogue on personal identity and immortality.
读，野狼战北，这本书，里面提到过关于人格同一性,和永生不死的对话。
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Still--the fact that we can put an end to it, that's the point we've already been flagging, that immortality would not be so good.
我们能将之结束的事实，正是我们一直在阐释的观点，就是永生并非好事。
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We've been looking at Plato's arguments for the immortality of the soul, and so far, I have to say I haven't found them very compelling arguments.
我们研究了柏拉图关于,灵魂不朽的论证，到目前为止，我要说的是,我发现这些论证并不是很有说服力。
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we are the envy of the rest of the universe It's not so much that immortality, what the rest of them have, is unattractive or boring.
我们是宇宙其他生命羡慕的对象,不是说其他生命所拥有的不朽，是没有吸引力的，是让人厌烦的。
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If death is bad, then one might wonder would immortality be a good thing?
如果死亡是件坏事，那么有人也许会好奇,是不是永生就是件好事了？
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His fundamental concern is to try to argue for the immortality of the soul.
他最关心的是,能否证明灵魂的不灭性
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So, I'm inclined to think, eventually immortality would always be bad overall.
所以，我倾向于认为，总体上永生最终都是坏事。
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You may believe in immortality because that's what your church teaches you.
你可能相信永生,因为那是教会告诉你的。
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Do we now have the argument for the immortality of the soul?
我们现在能否论证,灵魂是不朽的？
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And so the heart of the dialogue consists of a series of arguments in which Socrates attempts to lay out his reasons for believing in the immortality of the soul.
所以这部对话录的核心,是由一系列的讨论组成的,其中苏格拉底试图摆出他的原因,让人相信灵魂是不朽的
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