什么是生命？“他在介绍部分煞有介事地问。

What is life?" he asks, rhetorically in the introduction.

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人们常常会问或者被问什么是生命中最重要的东西。

People often ask and are asked that what is the most important thing in life.

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在我们了解什么是生命之前，我们已将它消磨了一半。

Before we know what life is, we have spent half of it.

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is like asking, "Might I still be alive after" well what's death? Death is the end of life.

等同于,我能继续活下去么,那么什么是死亡,死亡是生命的终结

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So, whatever the explanation is, we care about the overall shape and trajectory of our life.

所以，不管原因是什么，我们在乎生命的整体形状和轨道。

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in 1890 or in "The Variety of Religious Experiences" writes, " If we were to ask the question: ? "What is human life's chief concern?"

890年在“宗教经验之种种“中写道“,如果要问：,人类生命最主要的担心是什么“

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