Although a major oil producer, Iran must import most of its gasoline because of a lack of refining capacity, creating what U.S.lawmakers have long seen as a crucial point of leverage with Tehran over its nuclear program.

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And the crucial point about the case is that we stipulate that at no point was there a dramatic change.

这个案例的关键就在于,我们推断生命不可能会有戏剧化的剧变。

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It just reinforces the point that I was trying to make a few moments ago that the crucial question is not survival per se.

这将强化我刚才试图阐明的一点,就是关键问题不是存在本身。

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So the crucial point right now is that, thinking about harmony is offered as a counterexample to the generalization that invisible things can't be destroyed.

所以现在的重要问题是，和声的例子现在作为,灵魂不可毁灭,这一概括说法的反例。

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To see that,recall the fact that according to the personality view, as a theory of personality identity, the crucial point isn't that my personality stay identical.

要明白这一点，回想一下根据人格理论，作为个人认同感的理论，关键点不在于人格要保持不变。

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The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever.

这里至关重要的一点是永生,不仅意味着生存很长一段时间,甚至极其漫长的一段时间，而是指永远生存下去。

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The crucial point in thinking about this is to realize that every time you combine a different egg with a different sperm ? you end up with a different person, right?

考虑这个问题的关键一点是,明白每一次,你把一个不同的卵细胞和一个不同的精子结合,都会产生一个不同的人，对吗？

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No harm would be done if we call it a mind, though the reason I will typically talk about a soul is to try to flag the crucial point of the dualist view.

我们叫它心灵是完全可以的,我之所以重点强调,灵魂是为了,标识出二元论的重要论点

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It's important... I think this is the crucial point... that when we say a person is just a body, we don't understand that to mean... the physicalist doesn't mean that as-- a person is just any old body.

有个重要的一点...,我觉得这是最关键的一点,就是当我们说人只是个肉体时,我们不知道这意味着...,物理主义的意思不是...,人只是随随便便的某种肉体

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Now, the crucial point here, the point I was turning to as we ended last time, is that although a person on the physicalist view is just a body, a person isn't just any old body.

但问题的中心,即我在上次结课前谈到的关键点,在于尽管从物理主义的角度来看,人只是肉体,但并不是普通的肉体

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