Well, you might say surely there could be creatures that would want to live forever, that would enjoy an eternal existence.
你们也许会说一定存在某种生物,会希望永远活下去,会享受一种永恒的存在。
Third question that might interest us, that does interest us, is this: If it survives, how long does it survive?
第三个问题我们也许会感兴趣,我们肯定会感兴趣,那就是,如果灵魂活下来,它会活多久
So I don't think that anyone who's capable of understanding my views, and therefore obviously competent to decide for themselves whether they want to go on living should feel threatened by what I'm saying.
所以对于那些能够,理解我的观点的人们,和那些能够决定,是否要活下去的人们,我的言论并不会对他们产生威胁。
Well, if this kinase happens to turn this protein on then you would like to have a mechanism to turn it off as well.
那么在激酶激活蛋白质后,你会希望有一种方法能够使它失活
Well, first of all, you may not survive for long, if you truly don't accept the fact that things, people being no exception fall when left in mid-air.
首先,你可能活不长,如果你不接受,人会从半空中掉下来的事实。
Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.
现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义,因为没了神话,很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话,我们就能填补过去的空白。
Will we indeed be happier, better off while we're alive?
我们真的会活的更好吗
Yes and no. It was fascinating to be as Wordsworth says, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive" -to be around in those days, but at the same time I think it's rather advantageous for us to be still "in theory."
可以说会,也可以说不会,正如华兹华斯所说,“能活在那黎明时光是何等幸福“,虽然过去对人有很大吸引力,但同时我们还是,只在理论层面研究比较好“
And on the other hand," he says, "if I say that this even happens to be a very great good for a human being that is to make speeches every day about virtue and that the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being, " you will still less be persuaded by me."
但另一方面“他继续说,“如果我说这碰巧,也对人类贡献极大,透过每天演说美德,及没有反省的生命,不值得活,你们仍然不太可能会被我说服“
And when I think about that case,I find myself wanting to say, all right,I'll survive,but so what?
当我想到这个时,觉得自己会说,好了,我活了下来,但是又怎样呢?
So more life would always be better, no matter how horrible the contents might be.
活得更长久总是会更好,不管生活内容会有多糟糕。
Well, we might say, let's look at it from two basic perspectives, those who get less than the average lifespan and those who get more than the average lifespan.
我们可能会说,我们从两个基本角度来看,即那些活得比平均寿命短的,还有那些活得比平均寿命长的。
Hopefully their immune systems will respond to it like the real virus but it won't be capable of replication because we've chemically cross linked it so it can't go through its life cycle.
人体的免疫系统,就会对该病毒产生免疫应答,但灭活的病毒不能复制,因为我们已经对它做了化学处理,使它无法进入生命周期
Will that person survive the weekend?
那个人会不会活得过周末?
They live much longer lives and they live to die of something else and the leading causes of death currently haven't changed very much since 1997 when this data was published: they die of heart disease and cancer primarily.
人们活的更久了,不过会死于另一些疾病,如今导致死亡的主要原因,并没有太大的变化,自一九九七年有相关数据公开开始,其显示人们主要死于心脏病和癌症
Because if we were supposed to live forever, " then we would live forever.
因为如果我们本来就会永远活下去,“那么我们将会永远活下去。
Not only is it inevitable that you're going to die; not only do some people live longer than others, you don't know how much more time you've got.
你会死去这不仅是不可避免;,不仅有些人活得比另一些人久,你也不知道自己还剩下多少时间。
Or we might say,look,certainly I have a right to life.
我们可能会说,当然是我有活下去的权利。
So the mere fact that we decide, if we do ultimately decide that there is a soul, something nonphysical, separate and distinct from the body, doesn't guarantee that we survive our physical death.
根据我们仅有的事实去判断,如果我们最终判定灵魂是存在的,它是一种无形的,独立的,与肉体截然不同的东西,但仍不能保证我们会在肉体死亡后活下来
If only you'd known you had another 50 years, that you weren't going to die young-- or James Dean, going to burn out fast and die young-- if only you'd realized you were going to live to the ripe old age of 97, you would have picked a different life for yourself.
如果你知道自己还剩下50年,你不会英年早逝-,或者说你不会油尽灯枯,英年早逝-,如果你知道,你可以活到97岁高龄,你就会为自己选择另一种生活。
I indicated a couple of points here where if we looked in the 1665 in London you could ask the question another way to ask the question why are people living so long is to ask the question, why do people die?
我在这里提示一些关键点,如果我们观察一六六五年的伦敦,从另一个角度来问,人为什么能活的更久,就是问人为什么会死
Somebody dies at age 10 by some horrible disease better if they'd made it up to 40 Somebody dies at age 40,better if they'd made it up to 80 Somebody dies at age 80,better if they'd made it to 100,120 Is it true that life would get better and better and better ? the longer it is?
有人10岁得重病死去,如果能活到40岁更好0,有人40岁死去,如果或80岁更好0,有人80岁死去,如果活,100,120岁更好0,生命真的会越长越好,越长越好吗?
I don't really care whether I'm going to survive.
我不在乎是否会活下去。
We imagine instead of living 80 years,living 90 or 95 or more We imagine a longer life But what is it that happens when I say ? if only I'd been born earlier?
我们想象不仅活80,90或95岁,我们想象能活更长时间,但如果我想象早点出生,会发生什么情况?
But we might then wonder, for every person who gets less than the average amount of life-- suppose we take the median, take the amount of life that's exactly, 50 percent of the people get more, 50 percent of the people get less.
但是接着我们可能会想,对于所有活得比平均寿命要短的人-,假设我们取中间数,相对于平均寿命,刚好五成的人活得更长,五成的人活得更短。
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