We give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, but at some level, we don't really believe it.

口头上相信我们会死一事，在某种程度上，我们并不真正相信。

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Second thing we've been doing, I want to highlight for you is, we've along the way, mostly just verbally rather than writing it down, but we've been talking about good style.

我们一直在学的第二件事情是,我想给大家强调下，我们一直在口头上说，而没有把它写下来，但是我们一直在说优秀的风格。

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Well,maybe the explanation is, although we give lip service to the claim that we're mortal, at some more fundamental level,we don't truly believe it.

也许这个的解释就是，纵然我们口头上说我们会死，在某些最根本的层面上我们其实并不相信。

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The best explanation of that behavior is to be found by claiming that at some level, at some fundamental level,we don't really believe what we claim to believe.

对那种行为最好的说明就是口头上相信，但在某种根本的程度上，我们并不相信它。

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