and you may have said to yourself as you were reading it, "Well, gee, isn't this sort of digressive?

读的时候你可能会对自己说，天，难道这不是离题了吗？

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When you say, "what do you say", you don't mean literally "what have you said", "what do you speak".

当你说，“what do you say”的时候，你并不是像字面意思那样要询问“你说了什么”，“你在说什么”，

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When people say everyone dies alone, they don't mean to be saying you die, but not in the presence of others.

当人们说大家都孤独而死，他们不是说你死亡的时候，身边没有他人。

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not that things are but what things are using the instrument of language?

不是指一般时候事情是怎样的，而是说,运用语言工具时事情是怎样的？

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But that seems very hard to believe ? I mean, when I'm dead, I don't exist, right?

但那又似乎太难以让人信服了,我是说，当我死了的时候，我不存在，不是吗？

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