We can never just have it there before us or, as I say, if we can--if we can--it's a very, very difficult act of concentration.

我们永远不能只面对着它，或者，要我来说，如果我们可以的话，那将需要高度集中注意力，这是很难的。

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Faced with that question, he had to ask himself, ?" "Well, what should I do with my remaining years?"

面对这样一个问题，他不得不问自己，“我要如何利用剩余的这几年呢“

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And so what I'm really doing is inviting you to take a good, cold, hard look at death, and to face it and think about it in a way that most of us don't do.

那就是我要你们做的，认清，死亡的好和坏，面对它，然后思考它,用我们从没用过的方式。

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