They might be,for example,in an accident, and come close to being killed,but walk away without a scratch.

比如说在事故中幸存，差点送命，但结果毫发无伤。

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Story number two,just like story number one, the spaceship takes off,and about 15 minutes later, it explodes in a horrible accident and everybody on the spaceship, including your friend,is killed.

第二个故事和第一个故事一样，飞船起飞，十五分钟后，它在可怕的事故中爆炸，船上所有人包括你的朋友都死了。

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The idea really took root--the idea, the intuitive idea is that as you write a large number of policies, the fraction that will result in accidents becomes closer and closer to the probability of one accident.

这种观点建立在...,观点是,只要你签的保单足够多,事故占保单总数的比例就会越来越接近,事故发生的概率

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And perhaps that is pastoral in a way, going back to what you said, that I do think of myself in many ways as doing pastoral counseling, particularly in the most difficult circumstances when there's been a crisis, a death, a serious accident.

也许某种意义上这像是种牧师与受众，回到你刚才说的，很多时候我觉得自己,就是作为一个牧师指导学生，尤其是在极其困难的情况下,比如出现了危机，伤亡，或者严重事故。

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He won't listen;he bowls ahead, and he discovers in the process the terrible,terrible truth, which is that by accident,by coincidence, not by intent that as a young man he killed his father and subsequently married his mother.

他充耳不闻,执迷不悟,随后他在不经意间,发现了极其可怕的事实,或是因为事故,或是因为巧合,总之绝不是故意的,他年少时曾经弑父,随即娶了自己的母亲

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So suppose,gruesome as it was,this weekend I'm in some horrible accident and my torso gets destroyed and they keep my brain on life support, oxygenating it just long enough to do some radical surgery into some spare torsos.

来做个可怕的假设，我在周末惨遭事故,肉体完全损坏，只剩大脑靠系统维持生命，持续补氧到能被高超手术植入另外的身体。

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Here,before the accident,was Shelly Kagan,somebody who had my beliefs, desires,memories,goals,and so forth.

在事故之前，Shelly，Kagan是一个拥有我的信念，欲望，记忆，目标以及种种的人。

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