Well,maybe the explanation is, although we give lip service to the claim that we're mortal, at some more fundamental level,we don't truly believe it.

也许这个的解释就是，纵然我们口头上说我们会死，在某些最根本的层面上我们其实并不相信。

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Or maybe we need to distinguish between those things he gives a kind of lip service to, versus those things he truly and fundamentally believes.

或者也许我们需要区别,他口头上说的，和他真正从根本上相信的事情。

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The best explanation of that behavior is to be found by claiming that at some level, at some fundamental level,we don't really believe what we claim to believe.

对那种行为最好的说明就是口头上相信，但在某种根本的程度上，我们并不相信它。

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