What conclusions would we come to about the nature of death if we had to think about it from a secular perspective?

我们能得出关于自然死亡的什么结论,假如我们必须从,世俗的观点考虑它呢？

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That sounds funny, but in a sense, that is--we have to define the sense in which it's irrelevant.

听起来很有意思,但从某种意义上讲,我们必须说清楚不相关性的含义

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And this is a logical distinction we need to draw, even if you believe in souls.

我们必须得从逻辑上区分清楚,即便你真的相信灵魂的存在。

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Now if all we have to go on is just this semiotic system, it's going to be kind of hard to put up resistance to by the same token we'll say "yellow" means "pause," "green" means "go."

而从语义学角度分析，我们必须不能这么想,这样绿色自然就表示继续，黄色表示暂停“

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While China is going to continue to buy things, it doesn't mean they're going to buy them from us necessarily even though the dollar has gone down a great deal Student: Thank you. This is my last question.

虽然中国还将会继续购买原产品,但那并不意味着他们必须得从我们这买,即使美元已经,大幅度地贬值了,学生：谢谢，这是我最后一个问题。

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