Now, at the start, I distinguished two claims people might have in mind when they say, "Nobody believes they're going to die."

一开始的时候，我已经区别了,两种当人们说“没人相信自己会死“时，他们脑中可能存在的想法“

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It might be that Plato is worried that he hasn't really shown that the soul is immortal afterwards.

可能是柏拉图担心,他并没真正解释,灵魂在死后是不朽的。

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So, not at a horribly advanced age, I would like to think, he went to Lyon, which was a capital of the Resistance because they have all these things called traboules in Lyon, was one reason--they're passageways where you'd keep the silk, raw silk dry.

他当时还没到混吃等死的地步,我个人觉得,于是他去了里昂,当时是抵抗组织的一个首都,因为里昂那有那种过道,这是一个原因--就是小胡同,能让丝绸,生丝保持干燥

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Well, survive is something like we say that somebody's a survivor if something's happened and they haven't died.

很好,幸免就是我们说的,某个人是幸存者,如果出现惨剧他们没死

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The answer is: You don't bury the survivors, because survivors are people that haven't yet died.

答案是,你不需要埋葬幸存者,因为幸存者就是那些还没死的人

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Whereas,in contrast,when I die,even if I'm dying with others, nobody can take my part.

反之相对，当我死的时候，即便我和其他人一起死，没人能够替代我的位置。

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From the mere fact that you can't picture from the inside what it's like to be dead, it doesn't follow that nobody believes they're going to die.

仅从无法设身处地想象,死亡的感觉，不代表没人会相信自己会死。

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We might say, well, it's not true now Death isn't bad for me now I'm not dead now ? Maybe death is bad for me when I'm dead?

我们可能会说，反正现在不是真的,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我现在又没死,也许当我死的时候死亡对我有坏处？

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And the "brokenness" account of death allows us to say Larry's not dead.

因为对于死亡这个词的“敏感,让我们认为Larry还没死。

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