If there's something sort of degrading or unnoble about being a person who is going to become a corpse, committing suicide doesn't alter that fundamental fact either.

如果成为一个,将会变成尸体的人,有什么可耻或是不体面的话，自杀也不能改变这个基本的事实。

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You could have a corpse, and that's clearly not a person.

一具尸体显然不是一个人

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First of all, corpses and certain carcasses at are a source of ritual impurity: sara'at, which is this--we translate it "scale disease," it's been called leprosy. It's definitely not leprosy.

首先是尸体和一些动物的尸体,它们是仪式上不洁的一个来源，sara’,这个词我们翻译过来是“一种大规模的传染病“,也就是麻风病，事实上它并不是麻风病。

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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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