As a boy,he was stuffed in a sack and nearly beaten to death by Khmer Rouge soldiers simply for letting air out of a car tire.

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But a raving autumn shears Blossom from the summer's wreath; The older is condemned to death, Pardoned, drags out lonely years Conspiring among the ignorant.

可是一个肃杀的秋天啊,从夏日的花环上剪下鲜花；,年长者被判处死刑，遇赦后，挨过寂寞的一年年,在愚氓中间从事阴谋。

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and in some cases, even an explicit right to death is also something that is spelled out in many legal codes.

在有些情形下，许多法律法规中也明确记录了要求死亡的权力。

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But if death means permanent cessation of P-functioning, then it turns out the dead weren't really dead after all.

但如果死亡指的是人格功能性的永久停止，那就说明死者并非死去。

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All the sick people will come to you to buy life insurance and they will turn out to have a higher death rate than the population at large.

所有生病的人都会向你购买人寿险,而他们比普通人群,有着更高的死亡率

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You may think you've gotten away with something, but every act of social exploitation, every act of moral corruption, pollutes the sanctuary more and more until such time as God is driven out entirely and human society is devoured by its own viciousness and death-dealing.

犯了罪的人也许认为自己侥幸逃过一劫，然而他对所作的每一个行为，每一次的道德堕落，都会越来越玷污圣所,知道有一天上帝完全弃圣所而去,人类社会充斥着我们自身的邪恶和毁灭行为。

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So, the modern state, as we know it and still have it, in many ways grew out of the Hobbesian desire for security and the fear of death that can only be achieved at the expense of the desire for honor and glory.

所以我们知道的现代国家的建立,正如霍布斯所论,是人们对安全的渴求而导致的,只要一个人仍对荣誉有着强烈的渴求,他就永远不会对死亡产生恐惧。

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If you didn't really believe you were going to die, that is undergo bodily death, why would you take out life insurance?

如果人们不相信自己会死，不相信肉体的消亡，那为什么买人寿保险？

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There's nothing especially mysterious about death, although there may be a lot of details to work out from a scientific point of view.

死亡并没有什么神秘的，虽然其间有很多,科学方面的细节值得研究。

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And it's precisely for this reason that at least the soul, belief in the soul, combined with the soul theory of personal identity holds out the possibility of surviving my death.

就因为这个原因,至少灵魂，相信灵魂，在加上灵魂理论的人格同一性,建立起我不死的可能性。

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And the fact that we're always facing some risk of death recedes into the background in the way that most of us don't hear background noise-- that what jumping out of an airplane does for you is it spikes the risk of death.

我们一直面对的某些死亡的风险,这种情况下变成了背景声音,因为我们大部分人都听不到背景的噪声-,而跳下飞机带给你的,是死亡的风险上升。

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What could possibly drive somebody to jump out of an airplane with nothing but a little piece of cloth between them and death?

是什么可能驱使某人跳下飞机,而他们与死亡之间只有一片小小的布？

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How should one live, in light of the facts about death ? that I've been laying out in the semester up to this point?

一个人应该怎样活着，鉴于我这个学期一直讲到这刻的,关于死亡的事实？

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After all, if you rip out your gun, shoot me in the heart, I bleed to death, we still have a human body in front of us.

毕竟你拔出枪,击中我的心脏,我失血而亡,我还是保持着肉体的形式

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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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It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.

这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体

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