"At some level,debates like this never really end. Like,there are still people who believe that fluoride in water is a government plot."

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We give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, but at some level, we don't really believe it.

口头上相信我们会死一事，在某种程度上，我们并不真正相信。

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I believe that it fosters low level violence,

我认为，体罚会助长轻微暴力发生率的上升，

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That is,we think it's conceivable that somebody could, at some level,not really believe they're going to die.

就是说假设确实有人，在某种程度上不相信自己会死亡。

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You believe everything. Next, you get a college education and you don't believe anything, and then you reach the level of wisdom, the Higher Naivete, and you know what to believe even though you can't prove it.

你会相信眼前的一切,然后你接受大学教育,这时你又开始怀疑一切了,最后你将达到,"高级天真"的智者境界,这时即使没有证据,你也会去相信

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Well, for the answer to that we have to go back to ancient Greek music theory, and when you read about this--it's really turgid stuff-- but believe it or not, I teach a course on this at the graduate level.

这个,要回答那个问题,恐怕要追溯到古希腊的音乐理论,每次读这些都会云山雾罩的,不管你信不信,我曾在研究生中开过这个课程

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First of all, most people believe that their cholesterol level in their body is determined by how much cholesterol they actually consume, so foods high in cholesterol would be bad in that sense and foods low in cholesterol would be good.

首先,大多数人以为体内的胆固醇含量,取决于胆固醇的实际摄入量,由此看来高胆固醇的食物确实对身体无益,而低胆固醇食物则是有益的

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That's not a way that we really think about it, but I do believe that the risk level of the University's portfolio is really quite low in statistical terms -much lower than the risk level that you'd have if you had a traditional portfolio dominated by marketable securities.

这一般不是我们考虑的关键,但我相信,耶鲁投资组合的风险水平,在统计数字上是非常低的,远远低于,持有一个传统的可交易证券主导的,投资组合的beta系数

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The best explanation of that behavior is to be found by claiming that at some level, at some fundamental level,we don't really believe what we claim to believe.

对那种行为最好的说明就是口头上相信，但在某种根本的程度上，我们并不相信它。

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You might say,the only way to explain the behavior is to say that at some level, he really does believe his hands are dirty, despite the fact that he says they're not.

唯一的解释也许就是，在某种程度上，他确实还是相信自己的手脏的，尽管他说它们不脏。

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The fact that we don't behave in those other ways gives us some reason to believe that perhaps at some level we don't completely or fully or fundamentally believe we're going to die.

而我们并没有像他们一样的行为,说明了我们在某些或者根本程度上,没有完全相信自己会死亡。

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That's a stronger claim, though I think it's not the sort of claim that's unique to Tolstoy, that all of us or most of us or many of us at the fundamental level don't really believe that we're going to die.

这个说法就比较有力了，虽然我觉得这不是托尔斯泰独有的看法，声称我们当中全部或大部分,从某种根本程度上不相信自己会死。

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Well,maybe the explanation is, although we give lip service to the claim that we're mortal, at some more fundamental level,we don't truly believe it.

也许这个的解释就是，纵然我们口头上说我们会死，在某些最根本的层面上我们其实并不相信。

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So it's a bit odd to suggest, as it nonetheless does get suggested, that no, no, at some level, people don't really believe they're going to die.

所以说人们某种程度上，不相信自己的死亡这种说法，是有些怪异的。

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Well,in the same way,if we could find some behavior on our part that calls out for explanation, that the best possible explanation would be that at some level we don't believe we're going to die, then we might say,look, this gives us some reason to think that we don't really believe we're going to die, even though we say we believe it.

同样，如果我们发现自己有些行为有待解释，这最好的解释可能就是,在某种程度上，我们不相信自己会死，然后我们说，看，这让我们有理由相信，我们并不相信我们会死，即使我们口头上说相信。

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