So,all this is,is just,as we begin to ask ourselves, what could it possible mean when people say everyone dies alone?

所以我们要开始问自己，人们说他们孤独而死的时候是什么意思？

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When people say everyone dies alone, they don't mean to be saying you die, but not in the presence of others.

当人们说大家都孤独而死，他们不是说你死亡的时候，身边没有他人。

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Is it true that when we die we all die having this feeling of loneliness, or perhaps feeling of alienation?

确实我们死的时候感到格外孤独凄凉，或者是感觉非常生疏？

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We could say,look,when Socrates dies, he's dying alone in the sense that he's doing it by himself.

我们能说，当苏格拉底死的时候，他孤独而死的意思是，死亡是他单独完成的。

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To say that somebody does something alone means they do it not in the presence of others.

就是说人孤独而死的意思是,他们死的时候身边没有别人的存在。

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Well,you might say,Okay,what we meant was anybody who's awake while they're dying,dies alone.

你也许会说，人在清醒时候死去是孤独的。

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It's that when we die,it's as though we were alone.

而是我们死的时候，感觉孤独。

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On that straightforward interpretation,to say that everybody dies alone, what we're saying is that it's true of each one of us that he or she dies not in the presence of others.

对于说人都是孤独而死的最直接的诠释，就是说我们死去的时候,身边没有他人的存在。

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I put these conditions down because,of course, what I want to suggest is although the sentence everyone dies alone, the claim that everyone dies alone, is one of these things that people say, they're not really thinking very hard about what they mean by it.

我定下这些条件是因为，我想说尽管大家都说，人孤独而死，这都只是说说而已，人们说的时候并没有做什么深刻的思考。

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