"Today's summit is not lip service. We are not going to go through the motions and pay tribute to one another and then furl up the flags and go our separate ways.

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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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It's the sort of thing he's given lip service to, no doubt,over the course of his life.

他非常震撼，虽然他终其一生，口头上说相信死亡，这毫无疑问。

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Well,maybe the explanation is, although we give lip service to the claim that we're mortal, at some more fundamental level,we don't truly believe it.

也许这个的解释就是，纵然我们口头上说我们会死，在某些最根本的层面上我们其实并不相信。

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Or maybe we need to distinguish between those things he gives a kind of lip service to, versus those things he truly and fundamentally believes.

或者也许我们需要区别,他口头上说的，和他真正从根本上相信的事情。

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Maybe he gives lip service to the claim that he was mortal.

也许他只是嘴上说说相信自己会死。

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We don't really believe what we give lip service to.

我们并不相信我们口头的说法。

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but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

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