Falls are a leading cause of death for older adults and also a major reason they enter a nursing home.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

It's not that the facts about death give you reason to stay in your room and sulk.

不是说关于死亡的事实,给了你呆在房间里生气的理由。

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Could it be true, is there any good reason to believe it is true, that nobody believes they're going to undergo bodily death?

有没有任何理由相信，没人会相信自己肉体的消亡呢？

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Hakimullah Mehsud supposedly called news outlets after rumors of his death first arose, but Pakistani officials say they have reason to believe that it was Mehsud's cousin pretending to be the Taliban leader.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Do we have any good reason to believe the soul survives the death of the body?

我们有什么理由去相信,灵魂在肉体死亡后仍能存活

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Next question is going to have to be: If there are, do we have any good reason to think that they survive the death of the body?

下一个问题将是,如果存在,我们有没有很好的理由去相信,肉体死亡后灵魂依旧存活

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After all, even if you believe in a soul, as I have remarked previously, that doesn't give us yet any reason to believe the soul continues to exist after the death of your body.

毕竟,就像我之前说过的,即使灵魂是存在的,那也不能说明,灵魂在肉体死后,仍然能继续存在下去

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A bold claim would say, "The facts about death, if I thought about them, would change my behavior, but not because it would give me a reason to change my behavior-- " simply because it would influence my behavior."

一个大胆的观点会认为，“关于死亡的事实，如果我考虑了它们，就会改变我的行为，但不是因为它给了我改变行为的理由-,只是因为它影响了我的行为“

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