Now, chlorine I have to do a little bit more heavy lifting here because chlorine starts as a diatomic molecule.

现在，对于氯,我将会做更多的说明,因为氯元素起初存在于双原子分子中。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Now I use this to cover some phrase because I'm not here talking about rejecting the existence of souls.

在此我不打算多加赘词,因为我不是来这讨论,是否该拒绝承认灵魂的存在的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So if I get rid of these arrows, there's no heat flowing because they're in thermal equilibrium, then I can't have an arrow here.

所以如果我擦去这些箭头，没有热流存在,因为它们处于热平衡，那么这里也不能存在一个箭头。

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Now, I'm not introducing any genetic material at all so I don't have to worry about it replicating because there's no genetic material, all I do is deliver the particles.

这样就根本不用引入任何遗传物质,所以我也不需要担心它会复制,因为根本不存在任何遗传物质了,我所要做的只不过是接种部分微粒

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

There are lots of other writers we could include, including those two that I named, that would equally illustrate some of the threads that I've got on the syllabus now, but these are the ones for various practical and more substantive reasons that I have chosen.

我们其实还可以讲很多其他作家，包括刚才提到的那两位,他们也能阐述我大纲里的一些主题思想，但是因为各种实用并且更为实在的原因的存在,我才选了这些作家的作品。

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There is a kind of internal irony here, I think because Hobbes sometimes writes as if, as we've seen, as if human beings are nothing more than complex machines that mechanically obey the laws of attraction and repulsion.

但我想这儿似乎存在着一种讽刺,因为霍布斯笔下的人，似乎就只是一具复杂的机器,只知机械地遵循法律所允许和不允许的事,这点我们在前面已有所耳闻。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well--since I myself don't believe in souls, it's hard to surprise you to learn that I don't think the soul theory of personal identity is right.

因为我本身不相信灵魂的存在，所以你们肯定能想到,我认为人格同一性的灵魂论,不是正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Because I think positing a soul doesn't really yet offer us the explanation.

因为我认为灵魂存在的假设并未,给予我们一个合理的解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Even on the body view,the fact that I exist isn't good enough, ? because I'm not alive.I want to know,when am I alive? When am I dead?

即使从身体理论的角度，我存在并不不足够，因为我并不算活着，我什么时候活着？什么时候是死的？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But if there is another argument for that claim, I'm eager to hear it, because this argument, at any rate, seems to me to be unsuccessful.

但如果确实有这种论点存在，我迫不及待地想听一听，因为这个论点无论怎么看，似乎都不会说得通。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That approach pretty clearly isn't going to work for souls, because a soul--and again, we've got in mind this metaphysical view, according to which it's something immaterial-- isn't something we see.

但这种方法显然不能用来证明灵魂的存在,因为灵魂,我再一次说明,从这种形而上学的角度来看,灵魂是非物质实体,我们看不到它

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Putting aside,for the most part,the soul view, because I've argued that there are no souls-- although occasionally I bring it out just for the sake of comparison and contrast-- the main question we want to ask ourselves is how to choose between the body view and the personality view.

基本上可以把灵魂理论放到一边，因为我已经说过不认为有灵魂存在-,尽管有时候我会提到这个词,但那只是为了便于对比和比照-,我们要探讨的一个主要问题是,如何在两者之间取舍。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?

所以这并不是，就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好，因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well,if I just am my personality,then I don't exist in Phase D, because there's nothing there to be me,nothing with my personality.

如果我只是人格的代表，那在D阶段我就是不存在的，因为没有什么可以证明我的存在，我的人格已经消失。

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