Death is bad insofar as it deprives you of a chunk of life that would have been good.

死亡是坏的，因为它剥夺了,你的本可以美好的生命。

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Now, for myself, I'm sufficiently optimistic that I'm inclined to think life's wonderful.

现在，对我自己来说，我足够乐观地倾向于认为生命是美好的。

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It's as though we live life for a while, getting a feel for all the wonderful things life could offer us, and then a moment later, as it were, it's snatched away from us.

似乎我们活了一会，感受到了生命能提供给我们的所有美好的事物，然后片刻之后，又好像，被从我们身边夺走。

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But if life would no longer have anything good to offer you, if what you then would have had would have been something negative instead of something positive, then at that point, dying wouldn't actually be a bad thing.

但是当生命再也不能向你提供美好，届时我们面对的是,消极的而非积极的东西，那时死亡可能不是一件坏事。

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According to the deprivaton account, death is bad, when it's bad, because of the fact that it deprives us of the good things in life, insofar as we would have continued to get good things in life.

根据剥夺解释，死亡是坏的时才是坏的，因为它剥夺了我们生的美好，在我们还能继续从生命中获得美好时。

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