她和罗伯特的父亲都没有放弃他可能还活着的希望。

She and Robert's father had not given up hope that he might be alive.

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他说他还活着的唯一原因就是因为他是外国人。

He says he is alive only because he is foreign.

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当这个人还活着的时候，他居住于18世纪的费城。

When he was alive, this person live in 18th-century Philadelphia.

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If a person's just a P-functioning body, how could it be that after the death ? of his body he's still around?

如果人只是作为人功能的肉体，他的肉体死后,他怎么还会活着？

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As long as my soul still exists and is functioning it's still me. I'm still around.

只要我的灵魂在，还在运作,我还活着，我还存在。

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But we do know from living cultures that people do engage in all kinds of ritual and symbolic actions because of genuine beliefs about the importance of those actions, because those rituals and symbols are extraordinarily meaningful to them.

但是我们可以在还活着的文化中知道些什么,它们蕴含在人们做的各种宗教仪式和有象征意义的行为中,因为人们诚恳地相信这些行为的重要性，因为这些仪式和象征对他们来说意义重大。

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