You take that familiar fact and you wrap it up in the language everyone dies alone.

你把这个大家都知道的事实总结一下。

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The fact that you could die and you don't know when you're going to die doesn't yet entail that you could die at any minute, at any moment.

你可能会死和你不知道,自己什么时候会死这个事实并不能得出,你可能随时随刻死的结论。

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On the one hand, it could be that certain facts, if you knew them, would cause you to behave differently without actually giving you any reason to behave differently.

一方面，可能有某些事实，如果你知道了它们，会导致你的行为不同,但并没有真正地给你改变行为的理由。

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And your roommate says, "Inside the envelope are facts about this milkshake that if--I promise you it is indeed the case-- if you knew these facts, " you would not drink the milkshake anymore."

而你的室友说，“在信封里面是关于奶昔的事实,如果，我保证里面是事实-,你知道了这些事实，你就不会再喝奶昔了“

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Right now I want to go out with Peggy Sue, but if I knew these true--It's not that you think, oh your roommate has made it up, that these are lies; these are slander.

现在我想和Peggy，Sue约会，但如果我知道这些事实，不是你所想的那样，你室友瞎编的，都是些谎话;,它们是诽谤。

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