The researchers said those with the highest level of cortisol were five times more likely to die from cardiovascular causes than those with the lowest levels.

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We give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, but at some level, we don't really believe it.

口头上相信我们会死一事，在某种程度上，我们并不真正相信。

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That is,we think it's conceivable that somebody could, at some level,not really believe they're going to die.

就是说假设确实有人，在某种程度上不相信自己会死亡。

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What I want to look at first is the suggestion that somehow, at some level, nobody really believes they're going to die at all.

现在我想要考察的是这个说法,不管怎样，在某种程度上，没有人真正相信他们会死。

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And so, Freud concludes, at some level none of us really believes we're going to die.

所以弗洛伊德就总结到，某种程度上没有人相信自己会死。

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So it's a bit odd to suggest, as it nonetheless does get suggested, that no, no, at some level, people don't really believe they're going to die.

所以说人们某种程度上，不相信自己的死亡这种说法，是有些怪异的。

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The fact that we don't behave in those other ways gives us some reason to believe that perhaps at some level we don't completely or fully or fundamentally believe we're going to die.

而我们并没有像他们一样的行为,说明了我们在某些或者根本程度上,没有完全相信自己会死亡。

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That's a stronger claim, though I think it's not the sort of claim that's unique to Tolstoy, that all of us or most of us or many of us at the fundamental level don't really believe that we're going to die.

这个说法就比较有力了，虽然我觉得这不是托尔斯泰独有的看法，声称我们当中全部或大部分,从某种根本程度上不相信自己会死。

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Well,in the same way,if we could find some behavior on our part that calls out for explanation, that the best possible explanation would be that at some level we don't believe we're going to die, then we might say,look, this gives us some reason to think that we don't really believe we're going to die, even though we say we believe it.

同样，如果我们发现自己有些行为有待解释，这最好的解释可能就是,在某种程度上，我们不相信自己会死，然后我们说，看，这让我们有理由相信，我们并不相信我们会死，即使我们口头上说相信。

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