I'm not comforted by the thought that I will still be around 50 years from now, if the thing that's me doesn't have my personality.

我对“我还会存活50年只是那个我，并不带有我的人格“一事并没觉得宽慰。

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and there's something very comforting about that.

其中有很让人宽慰的感觉。

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The dead are raising their objections here to guns that will be used very shortly in the Great War. God reassures them, though, of course, what he says here is not reassuring.

死者在这里提出了他们对枪声的反对,那不久就会被用于世界大战中，上帝让他们放心，当然尽管他在此所说的并不是宽慰之言。

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