If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.

如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

How should one live, in light of the facts about death ? that I've been laying out in the semester up to this point?

一个人应该怎样活着，鉴于我这个学期一直讲到这刻的,关于死亡的事实？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Goncourt, one of the writers, the Goncourts, the one who hadn't died yet, was no friend of ordinary people, but there's an amazing scene in his memoirs when he's down by the Hotel de Ville and he sees these women chained together, being walked around, and he says, "What, where are they going?"

龚古尔,龚古尔两兄弟都是作家,当时还活着的那一个,和平头百姓从来合不来,但在他的回忆录里有这样惊人的一幕,他路过市政厅的时候,看见一些被锁链串成一列的妇女们,正在被游街,他就问,"怎么,她们这是要去哪"

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

That there'd be no way at all to tell whether I've survived from one minute to the next, ? from one hour to the next?

我们完全无法知道,下一秒,下一个小时，我是否活着？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For that matter, no serious harm done if we ask: Is there life after death?

就此而言,我们再问一个问题也没关系,死后能否继续活着

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.

这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

During period D, I'm still alive, but I'm no longer functioning as a person.

在D阶段中，我还是活着的，但我不再作为一个人存在了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选