The relationship between the beginning and the end that I have been intimating, in other words, is a relation of death.

我之前一直在提示的,开始和结束的关系，还句话说，是死亡的关系。

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When the body breaks some more, you get the loss of biological or B-functioning, and then the body dies.

身体继续损坏，身体功能也会开始消失，肉体就死亡了。

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One sort of opens up the beginning of life here and the other closes it down through a referencing of death.

前者讲的是生命的开始,后者通过诠释死亡,讲述了生命的终结

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Now for next time we'll be reading Lycidas, which is about the death of a friend -- and the death of a friend, in fact, who died a virgin, we have to assume.

下一次我们将开始阅读《利西达斯》,是关于一位朋友的死亡，事实上这位死去的朋友是位处女，这我们得设想。

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That's a crucial mistake that we make when we first try to come to terms with what Freud means by "the death wish."

如果我们一开始就试图理解弗洛伊德所谓的,“死亡冲动“就犯了大错误了“

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So, they started to do collecting of data on mortality and they developed something called actuarial science, which is estimating the probability of people living.

他们开始收集死亡率的数据,并且发展出精算学,用来估算人在各年龄段死亡的概率

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He's obsessed with grief over Enkidu, and he's obsessed with the whole issue of mortality. He begins a quest for immortality, and that takes up most of the rest of the epic.

他无法从Enkidu之死的悲痛中挣脱出来,他开始了对死亡这个命题的追寻，这部书余下的部分，都是关于这点的描写。

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Now, you might think, ? well, didn't we already discuss that when we started thinking about variability?

现在你可能会想，我们不是已经谈过这个了吗,就在我们开始讨论死亡可变性的时候？

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All right. Last time we started asking ourselves about what are some of the other aspects of death that might contribute to its badness, or at least other features of death that are worth thinking about.

好了，上一次我们开始自问这样一个问题,死亡还有什么其他的方面,可能导致其坏处的原因，或者至少是其他值得思考的死亡的特征。

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It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

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