Indeed,let me take a moment and read a poem that emphasizes this thought, because this is certainly one central,very bad thing about death.

事实上，让我念一首诗来强调它，因为这确实是死亡的主要坏处。

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And there's at least some comfort to be had, isn't there, in the realization that this thing isn't just true for me.

至少这里还有让人感到安慰的事，因为死亡必然性不仅对我来说是真的。

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I ought to say a word about death, in order to comprehend what the Greeks thought. You know, different peoples have had different ideas about them.

我得说一下有关死亡的事儿,好让你们更容易理解希腊人的思维,你们知道,不同人对于死亡的观念是不同的

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Let's suppose that my personality doesn't get destroyed any sooner than the death of my body.

让我们设定我的人格并没有,在肉体的死亡前被破坏。

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Just before the death scene, there's a long myth, which I draw your attention to but I don't want to discuss in any kind of detail.

我想让你们注意,在这个死亡场景之前,有一个古老的传说,但我不想去讨论任何的细节

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Let me turn now to a different claim that sometimes gets made about death.

现在让我转向另一个和死亡相关的论点。

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And the answer that strikes me as most plausible is, it's the very fact that there's a significant chance of death that helps explain why people do this.

让我觉得最似乎合理的答案是，正是有很大的死亡的可能性这个事实,解释了为什么人们这么做。

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It made me think about life and death in a new way.

它让我以一种新的方式思考生命与死亡。

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So it's not that the result is going to be that I'm going to try to convince you that death isn't bad, but it takes actually a little bit of work to pin down precisely what is it about death that's bad and how can it be death?

所以，这么说,并不是我试图让你相信死亡不是坏事，但是这的确要花点时间来准确地说清楚,什么让死亡成了坏事，和怎样才算死亡？

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It was astonishing enough that somebody-- but perhaps understandable--that somebody in that situation would decide to take a class on death and then have himself, submit himself, to my getting up here week after week, there's no prospect for an afterlife, it's a good thing that we're all going to die.

某个，某个处于那种情况下的人-,会决定上一门有关死亡的课,然后一周接一周地让自己来上我的课,忍受我讲的没有来世，我们所有人都会死是好事，这是足够让人震惊的，但也许也是可以理解的。

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Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?

因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕？

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