At least not if we try to take these claims fairly literally or take them to be metaphysical claims about the nature of death.

至少在我们从字面意义上,或从形而上学上解释死亡的本质时看不到。

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.. So that death-- they're optimists in this strange sense, if they think life would've been good, which means of course that that we die is bad for us.

所以死亡-,在这种奇怪意义上他们是乐观主义者，如果他们认为活着本来会很美好，那意味着死亡是件坏事。

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Still, there are a couple of claims about death that get made frequently enough, about death being mysterious in one way or another, that I want--or special or unique-- that I want to focus on.

但仍然，还是经常出现各种,声称死亡在这种或是那种意义上，是神秘的，特别的，或者是独特的这样的说法-,引起了我的注意。

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