"It could be hitting natural fractures that already exist." Fox notes that toxic gases like benzene,toluene and hexane also accompany natural gas extraction.

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Now, of course, it could still be that in the real world the one thing cannot exist without the other.

还是可以说,在真实世界里,某物不能脱离于另一物而独立存在

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As I said, it looks as though to answer the question, "Could I continue to exist after the death of my body?"

如我所讲,似乎要回答这个问题,就得回答"肉体死后我能否继续存在"

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How could it be that death is bad for me ? when I don't exist?

死亡怎么可能对我来说有坏处,当我都不存在了？

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And if it is just one thing, you could tell a story in which it exists; you could tell a story in which it doesn't exist.

所以,如果它只是一个物体,你只能说它存在,或是不存在

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The object. Could it exist before but won't exist afterwards.

事物能否在之前存在,却不会在之后存在。

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But even if we didn't think we could show that the soul would continue to exist at least it could, it would make perfect sense to think about it continuing to exist.

但即使我们不觉得,我们能证明灵魂继续存在,至少有这个可能，认为灵魂不死,对很多人来说很有意义。

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This just brings us back to the thought that whether or not I could still exist after the death of my body looks like it should depend on what I am. So in a minute, that's the question that I'm going to turn to.

这又带回到我们的另一个思考,我是否有可能,在我死后一直存在,这取决于另一个问题"我是谁",待会,我会谈到这个问题

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