Although death and destruction flood the foreground, the Comfort can be seen approaching on the horizon.

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And pessimists might be those who say, "No, no. On balance, " the negative of death outweighs the positive-ness of life."

而悲观主义者可能会说，“不，不，总的来说，死亡的负面性要盖过生命的积极性“

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And the first question we're going to be focusing on is just this, the question of the badness of death.

我们第一个要研究的问题就是，死亡的坏处。

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So Klawans notes in the article you read that the physical substances and states that are labeled impure and are therefore designated as antithetical to the realm of holiness are states that are associated with death on the one hand, and procreation on the other. Why should this be?

克洛文对你们现在读到的文章有过这样的说明,那些被贴上不洁标签,然后被认为和神圣的领域相对立的物质和状态,一方面来说都和死亡有关系，而另一方面和生殖有关，这是怎么回事呢？

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It can't be that what's going on in near-death experiences is that people are reporting about what it's like to be dead because-- so the objection says-- they never really died.

人们所说的自身死亡时,所产生的濒死体验,是绝对不可能发生的,因为,这种反驳这样说道,他们没有真正死掉

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So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near- death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds-- this would be the bad notion of philosophy-- on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

因此想要在哲学基础上,驳回这种诉诸濒死体验,这可不是一个好的哲学观,从哲学基础上来看,我想那是不明智的

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But it's a philosophy class, and what that means is that the set of topics that we're going to be talking about in this class are not identical to the topics that other classes on death might try to cover.

但是它是一门哲学课，这就意味着,我们在这门课上要讨论的一系列问题,和其他讲死亡的课上讨论的问题,是不一样的。

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The lamb will then be eaten as a family meal, and its blood will be smeared on the doorposts to mark the house so the angel of death knows to pass over that house -handy and the pun works in Hebrew, as well as English, In addition, each family is to eat unleavened bread.

然后这家人把羊吃掉，然后把羊血涂在门柱上，作为标记,所以当死亡天使经过的时候便可以看到,这里有一个在希伯来语和英语中都能讲得通双关语，除此之外，每一家都要吃没有发酵的面包。

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But it's often seemed to people that if we really believe that death is the end-- and that's the assumption that I'm making here on out-- if we really believe death is the end, how can death be bad for me?

但是通常我们都会认为死亡就是终结-,我现在所设定的条件就是-,如果我们真的相信死亡就是终点，死亡对我来说有什么不好呢？

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