It was not until Henry Ford's gas-powered Model T that the internal combustion engine and the car became inseparable.

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We need to believe that the soul, unlike an engine, can't itself be destroyed, can't itself decompose, can't fall apart.

我们需要相信的是，灵魂和发动机不同，自己不会毁灭，自己不会腐烂，自己不会变成碎片。

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But, in an internal combustion engine what happens is we don't have an oxygen tank.

但是在一个内燃机中,如果我们没有氧气罐会发生什么呢。

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And of course even if in many cases, the engine continues to exist for a while, after the destruction of the car, certainly it doesn't follow the engine is immortal that continues to exist forever.

当然，即使在许多情况下，发动机在汽车毁坏后，能继续存在一段时间，但当然不能得出结论说,发动机是不朽的会永远存在下去。

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