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Socrates is engaged in philosophical discussion with his friends, knows he's about to die.

苏格拉底和朋友们进行哲学探讨，知道自己就将死亡。

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For our purposes,the crucial point is to see that what seems to be going on there is our hero is taking the place of somebody else who's about to die.

我们的目的是搞清楚这里的情况,我们的主人公代替别人死亡了。

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In other words, what is there--which is a kind of way of talking really has to do with what Gadamer means when he talks also about die Sache, the subject matter.

换句话说，存在,确实和伽达默尔所说的,事情本身有联系。

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You are about to see them die.

你只能眼睁睁看他们死去。

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Now,if you believed in a soul,then you might worry about, well,gosh what's going to happen to my soul after I die?

如果你们相信灵魂，那你们会担心，天啊，我死后我的灵魂会怎样呢？

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Or, more generally, we'll worry about how should the fact that I'm going to die affect the way I live?

或者，更通俗的说，我们会担心我将死去这个事实,如何影响我的生活方式？

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What about the fact that not only is it inevitable that I'm going to die, it's inevitable that we're all going to die.

以下这个事实,即不但是我会死不可避免，我们都会死这也是不可避免的。

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So just start by thinking about the fact that it's unavoidable that you're going to die.

首先，思考以下这个事实,你会死去这无可避免。

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The central bad thing about the fact that I'm going to die is the fact that because I'll be dead I'll be deprived of the good things in life.

我即将死去的主要坏处,就是因为我会死掉,我生活中美好的事物都会被剥夺。

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He's not worried about the fact that he's going to die.

他根本不担心自己即将死去

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This is the claim--not that nobody believes they're going to die; that's the one we've been talking about for the last lecture or so--but instead, the claim that everybody dies alone.

这论点是这样的，不同于我们以前所讲的;,没有人相信自己会死亡，而是说每个人都是孤独而死的。

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Well, if that's right, and if we then realize that there's nothing I can do about the fact that I'm going to die, then perhaps some of the sting, some of the bite, is eliminated.

如果那是对的话，如果我们意识到,我们无法改变我们会死去的事实，那么也许有些刺痛，有些痛苦便消除了。

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But at least it doesn't seem to be the sort of argument, unlike some of the arguments I've considered last time about oh, nobody believes they're going to die because you can't picture being dead or what have you.

但这至少比我上次思考的，认为没有人相信自己会死，因为你不能想象死亡是什么样子,之类的论据有道理。

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On the one hand, you can imagine somebody who says, " "Look, it's bad enough that I'm going to die, " but the fact that " there's nothing I could do about it just makes it worse.

一方面，可以想象有些人会说，“我会死去这已经够糟糕了，“但是对此我无可奈何,“却让它变得更糟糕。

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