National flags across India will be flown at half-staff Friday to mourn the death of the chief minister of the key southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

So, the first half of the class is going to be concerned with questions about the nature of death.

所以，课程的前半部分将会集中在,死亡本质的问题上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You can see that when you get out to the highest groups here, the highest weights, the relative risk is up at two and a half or three, so that would be a 200% increase in risk for cardiovascular death or two to three times the risk of death.

当我们看图上相对风险最高的这组,也就是体重最大的这组,这组的相对风险大约是2.5倍到3倍,即心血管疾病致死的风险增加了200%,或者说增加了2到3倍

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So look,what I've just been talking about for the last half hour or so is the fact that we've got to get clear, in thinking about the nature of death, as to whether or not the crucial moment is the moment when the personality functioning stops or the moment when the bodily functioning stops.

过去的半个小时,我一直在说我们要搞清，死亡的本质，是人格功能还是生理功能的停止,定义了死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选