And we might think, look, this is one of the negative things about the human condition that we get a taste of life-- nothing more--before it's snatched away.

我们可能会想，瞧，这是关于人类处境的一个负面的内容,我们尝到了生命的滋味-,仅此而已，在它被夺走前。

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When Plato asked himself how could that be, the answer he gave is, well, it's got to be we were previous acquainted with the forms before our life in this world, and that shows that the soul must be something that existed prior to the creation of the body.

柏拉图问自己这究竟是怎么回事，他给出的答案是,我们有生命以前就,已经熟悉了这些形式，这就表明灵魂是在,身体存在之前就已经具有的了。

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