The reason it looks like a tautology, because you look around, nothing seems to have its velocity forever.

其原因听起来像是绕圈子,因为你看看四周,似乎一切都不可能永远运动下去

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If you start listing all the things worth having in life, it might seem as though you couldn't possibly come to any general organizing principles.

假设你开始列出人生中值得拥有的东西，你似乎不可能,总结出一个概括性的组织准则。

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And we don't seem to forget it.

但我们似乎不可能忘记这段历史

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It seems like it's impossible.

似乎那是不可能的

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Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?

因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕？

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