When you try to imagine your being dead, you smuggle yourself back in as a spectator.

当你想象自己的死亡时，都是将自己作为旁观者重新带入。

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We are invited to be not merely passive onlookers of this conversation, but active participants in that dialogue that takes place in this book over the course of a single evening.

我们不仅受邀,作为这场会谈的被动旁观者，更受邀参与进行中的对谈,时间就在那一晚,内容是本书。

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All right, I've smuggled myself in as a spectator.

好了，我将自己作为旁观者带入了。

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Well, when you do picture it, there's that room in your mind's eye. You've got a little picture of people sitting around the table perhaps, discussing the business of your club. Uh-oh, I've smuggled myself in as a spectator.

当你真的开始想象时，脑子里就会浮现出一个房间,人们围桌而坐，讨论俱乐部种种事宜，看，我又将自己作为旁观者带入其中了。

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