But the point is there's a connection between this condition, this skin condition, and its decomposition and death.

关键是，这个症状，这个皮肤症状和它的腐烂和人的死亡有一定的关系。

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It's that she's rotting; there is mushrooms growing on her, figurative mushrooms growing on her head.

她就像在腐烂;,就像有蘑菇长在她的脸上，她的脸除了些许白斑都是紫色。

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She's a flower, she's perishable, she's half hidden, - and she's ultimately dead and in the ground-- whereas a star would seem to be something that she just can't be mapped onto if she is this half-hidden thing.

她是一朵花，是易腐烂的，有一半深埋在土里，最终凋谢回归土地-,如果她一般在土里,她就不可能是星星。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

People are amazing. And we end up rotting.

人是了不起的，我们最终以腐烂结局。

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He points out that in the 1798 edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, biscuit worms had gotten into the hard-tack, so naturally, he says, "The particular kind of albatross that the mariner shot, I am told, makes a very tolerable broth."

他说在1798年版的《老水手之歌》,给信天翁的食物已然腐烂，所以他自然的认为，“水手们,杀死的信天翁，做成的汤味道不错“

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You might say, "Look, the physicalist can't tell us that, because all the physical parts are still there when you've got the corpse, at least if it's a fresh corpse before the decay has set in.

你可能会说,你看,物理主义不会告诉我们那些的,因为尸体所有的,身体器官部分都还存在,至少对于还未腐烂的尸体而言是这样的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Napoleon's corpse is rotted in France.

拿破仑的躯体在法国腐烂了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

As he begins to tell you this story, you start picturing Peggy Sue as a rotting corpse.

在他开始告诉你这些的时候，你开始想象Peggy，Sue是一个腐烂尸体的样子。

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