It is true that several times he has cured a very sick person that everyone thought would die.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Would it be better to know when you were going to die?

你知道自己何时死亡会更好吗？

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If smallpox occurred in your community, about 30 percent of the people that acquire the disease would die from it; the other 70 percent could be disabled or permanently disfigured as a result of the disease.

如果你周围有人得了天花的话,那么百分之三十的天花病人,会因此死亡,剩下的百分之七十会成为残疾或永久毁容,这都是天花造成的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Would it not be better for him to die quickly, and go to wait for her in that blessed place of the future?

VOA: special.2009.04.18

If I'm right in thinking immortality would be undesirable, then the fact that we're going to die is good, because it guarantees that we won't be immortal, which would be a nightmare, an unending nightmare.

如果永生不值得期许的观点是对的，那么我们终将一死的事实是好的，因为它保证我们不得永生，那是恶梦，一场永无止尽的恶梦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the other would accept war, rather than let it die.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

There are also survivorship policies that will pay, for example, the second to die-- there would be a policy if a husband and wife get it, then it pays out when the second of them dies.

还有一种叫做生死两全保险,它会向身故受益人赔付直至其死亡,若一对夫妻购买这种保单,且其中一方死亡,那么它会给活着的一方赔付直至其死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Weaver says he would die to protect the Second Amendment if it is threatened.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The way I understood it originally was that that was the whole issue is that the cabin boy was never consulted about whether or not something was going to happen to him, even with the original lottery whether or not he would be a part of that, it was just decided that he was the one that was going to die.

就我的理解，从始至终,一直困扰我们的争端就是,从没有人去征得过派克的意见,没人告诉他即将有什么遭遇，就连最初提出的抽签,他是否有份参与，他们径直决定，他应该是被牺牲的那个。

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The big problem life insurance had was people would buy it and they'd pay for several years and eventually they would think, well we didn't die, we're losing all this money, let's just cancel the insurance.

人寿保险的一个主要问题是,人们在购买了若干年保险后会突然觉得,我们并没有死,保费白花了,我们干脆把保险取消好了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If that would've been worth having, then-- if the next chunk of my life would've been worth having-- then it's bad for me that I die now instead of living for the next ten years.

如果它是值得拥有的话-,如果我下阶段的生活值得拥有的话-,那么它就是坏事,因为我现在就死了，无法再活十年。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Maybe reading philosophy would be somethin that as long as you were doing it you couldn't die or, as perhaps some religious traditions might've taught, as long as you were engaged in prayer ? you couldn't die. Wouldn't that be nice?

也许看哲学书会是某件,只要你在做，你就不可能死的事，或者也许像某些宗教传统所说，只要你参与祷告,你就不可能死，那样岂不是很好？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Suppose,for example,that if you really did believe, fundamentally,unconsciously,all the way down-- however we should put it--if you really did believe you were going to die, the horror of that would lead you to start screaming and just keep screaming.

假设，比如你真的相信，根本上潜意识里相信-,你真的相信自己有朝一日会死，这种恐惧会让你一直尖叫不已。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选