For example,if I said, "What do most people believe about what happens to you after you're dead?"

比如，“人们通常认为,人死后会是何种情形“

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Well, the reason for thinking otherwise, the reason for not being utterly dismissive of this suggestion, is that when people get ill, terminally ill, it often seems to take them by surprise.

其他的想法产生的原因，人们没有完全摒弃这个假设的原因，是当人们得病，病入膏肓时，这通常让人措手不及。

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For a driver, for instance, when I ask you to rank how good you are as a driver, what people often do is they think--they say, "I'm better than average," but what they do is they focus on one aspect of their driving.

例如，拿司机来说，当我叫人们给自己的开车技术打个分时，人们通常会认为，“我比一般人好”,但其实他们只看到了开车的一个方面。

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