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That doesn't seem right He's not dead on Monday ? How could I kill him on Monday?
似乎不是,他星期一还没死,我怎么可能在星期一杀死了他？
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and finding the dead bodies that hadn't been found and putting labels on them
就是四处寻找未被发现的尸体，然后在上面贴上标签，
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We might say, well, it's not true now Death isn't bad for me now I'm not dead now ? Maybe death is bad for me when I'm dead?
我们可能会说，反正现在不是真的,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我现在又没死,也许当我死的时候死亡对我有坏处？
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But he didn't--he wasn't dead.
但它没有死。
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And it's come to this, A man can't speak of his own child that's dead."
接着，这里说到，一个男人不能提及自己死去的孩子“
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There weren't enough men to go round, they were dead.
根本就没有足够的劳动力,都死了
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We can't have it back. It's gone. It's dead.
我们无法召回过去，过去了就过去了，无可挽回。
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Yes, Barthes talks about the death of the author, but even Barthes doesn't mean that the author is dead like Nietzsche's God. The author is there, sure.
是的，巴尔特谈到了作者已死的问题，但和尼采所说的上帝已死这个层面上的内容还是有所不同,作者肯定就在那里。
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Well, not now My death can't be bad for me now I'm not dead But it's not 100% clear that the other alternative isn't acceptable "? Why not say,"My death is bad for me when I'm dead"?
至少不是现在,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我又没死,但另一种情况我们也不能百分百,确定是不可接受的,为什么不能说，“死亡在我死的时候对我来说是有坏处的？
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So says to this person, "Isn't it strange you have this dead-end job when you're twice as smart as your boss?
狗跟这个人说，”你不觉得很奇怪吗，你做这份没出头之日的工作,你的才智比你上司高一倍？
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Even if these people didn't stay in the second room, they didn't stay dead, they had some experience of being dead.
即使这些人没在第二个房间待过,他们没有保持死亡状态,但是他们多少有些死亡的体验
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We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.
我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。
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I don't even exist on Wednesday I died myself on Tuesday ? How can I kill him after I'm dead?
我星期三压根就不存在了,我星期二就死了,我怎么可能在我死了之后杀了他？
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But that seems very hard to believe ? I mean, when I'm dead, I don't exist, right?
但那又似乎太难以让人信服了,我是说，当我死了的时候，我不存在，不是吗？
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Isn't that relevant to what it would be like to be dead?
这难道与死了没关系吗
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So I haven't really imagined the world in which I no longer exist, a world in which I'm dead, a world in which I'm incapable of thought and observation.
所以我并没有真正,想想自己不存在的世界，自己死后的世界，一个我无法再思考和观察的世界。
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The claim's got to be, I can't picture being dead.
而是我无法想象自己死亡这一事实。
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When I'm dead, I won't exist Isn't that the straightforward explanation about ? why death is bad?
当我死了，我就不存在了,这难道不是对为什么死亡不好,明确的解释吗？
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From which it follows, the argument goes, that I don't really believe I'll ever be dead.
接下来，这个论点就变成，我不能够相信自己的死亡。
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If I don't exist,how can it be bad for me that I'm dead?
如果我不存在，那死亡对我又有什么不好呢？
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And haven't I just said, "Look, you can't picture being dead"?
我刚才不是说过，人无法想象自己的死亡？
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Well, most of us don't feel comfortable saying that he's dead.
应该说，我们中大多数人会不喜欢这说法。
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Still, granted the premise, if you can't picture it or imagine it, you can't believe in it-- Should we conclude, therefore, that you can't believe you're going to be dead?
但让我们仍然基于，无法想象的东西是不能相信的这个前提-,我们就该得出，人不能相信自己的死亡,这一结论吗？
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After all, not only is it true that you can't picture from the inside what it's like to be dead, you can't picture from the inside what it's like to be in dreamless sleep.
说到底，不仅人无法想象,死亡的感受，人甚至连无梦的睡眠,当下的感受都无法想象。
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But at least it doesn't seem to be the sort of argument, unlike some of the arguments I've considered last time about oh, nobody believes they're going to die because you can't picture being dead or what have you.
但这至少比我上次思考的，认为没有人相信自己会死，因为你不能想象死亡是什么样子,之类的论据有道理。
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should we conclude therefore, given that we've got the premise, "If you can't picture it or imagine it, then you can't believe in it," since I've just said, look, you can't imagine being dead, but that's not due to any failure of imagination, that's because there's nothing there to imagine or picture.
于是我们就应该基于这个前提，想象不了的东西就不能相信，得出结论吗“,我刚才已经说过，人不能想象自己的死亡，不是因为想象的失败，而是本来就没有东西可以想象。
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So for our purposes, we don't have to ask ourselves when Socrates in the dialogue says something, is this a view that the dead man Socrates actually would have held or is this simply a view that the dead man Plato put in the mouth of the character Socrates?
所以,出于这门课程的目的,我们无需深究,苏格拉底在对话中的某个观点,到底是属于那个真实的受死之人苏格拉底的,还是属于已故之人柏拉图,通过作品中苏格拉底这个角色所表述的
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Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?
因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕？
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So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?
所以这并不是，就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好，因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢？
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