And developmental psychologists use many ingenious methods to try to pull these apart and try to figure out what are the basic components of human nature.

发展心理学家们使用了许多巧妙的方法,试图将这些因素分开,试图找出人性的基本成分,究竟是什么

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But still, details and complications of the sort we've been considering aside, the fundamental badness of death is that it deprives me of life worth having.

但是，这种细节和复杂因素,我们不去考虑，死亡的基本坏处就是,它剥夺了值得拥有的生活。

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