Bernard Williams So, I agree with Bernard Williams when he says immortality wouldn't be desirable.

所以我赞同,他说永生不是值得期许的东西。

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What could be more desirable than that?

还有什么比那更让人期许？

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Maybe that would be desirable forever.

也许那是值得永久期许的。

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If I'm right in thinking immortality would be undesirable, then the fact that we're going to die is good, because it guarantees that we won't be immortal, which would be a nightmare, an unending nightmare.

如果永生不值得期许的观点是对的，那么我们终将一死的事实是好的，因为它保证我们不得永生，那是恶梦，一场永无止尽的恶梦。

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This has got my personality, my memories of growing up in Chicago,becoming a philosopher, my thoughts about what I want to have happen to my children, my fears about how I'm going to explain what's going on to my wife.

这个肉体拥有我的人格，我在芝加哥成长，成为哲学家的记忆，拥有我对孩子将来的期许，有我不知该如何跟妻子解释的恐惧。

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We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

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