We can also follow stories which involve more profound transformations as when a man dies and is reborn into the body of a child.

我们也能理解很多包含更大转变的故事,比如某人死后又转世投胎到新生儿的身上

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If you're lucky, as another person; if you're not so lucky, as a pig or a donkey or an ant or what have you.

幸运的话,转世为人,如果不幸运的话,可能会变成猪,驴,蚂蚁等等

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Now, you might have different views around-- People around this room will have different views as to whether reincarnation really exists, but we can imagine it.

你可能有些不同的观点,是关于,对于转世投胎是否真的存在,在座的各位可能会有很多不同的看法,但我们可以想象一下

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The answer's going to be,yes,because my soul will be reincarnated.

答案将是肯定的，因为灵魂的转世。

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Imagine that that's the way reincarnation worked.

想象一下如果那就是转世轮回。

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Suppose that people can be reincarnated.

假设人可以转世。

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But if you've not separated yourself from the body while in life, if you're too enmeshed in its concerns, then upon the death of your body your soul will get sucked back in, reincarnated perhaps, in another body.

但假如你没有,在活着时让心灵从身体中抽离,如果你太过于陷入身体的渴求,在你死后,你的灵魂会被吸回这个世界上,可能会转世,进入另一个肉体

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So we'd say to ourselves,wouldn't we,somehow Napoleon has been reborn or reincarnated, taking over,by some sort of process of possession, the body of the former David Smith,but now it's Napoleon.

所以我们会说，也许拿破仑转世重生了，通过某种夺舍方式，占据了，曾名为David，Smith之人的肉体，但现在他是拿破仑了。

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