Personality is the way a person acts, feels and thinks.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

As physicalist we can still say that the bases of personality is that there're bodies, there're functioning in certain ways.

作为物理主义学者我们认为,人格的基础还是肉体的存在，肉体的存在有很多个性。

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As we could have same personality without literally same brain, if personality is the key to personal identity, that would still be me.

我们可以拥有同样的人格,不需要同样的大脑,如果人格是人格同一性的关键的话，那个人还是我。

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The "Type B" personality is calmer.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

One analysis of multiple personality disorder is that you have many people inside a single body fighting it out for control.

对多重人格障碍的一种解释就是,在你的身体中存在着多个心灵,争夺对身体的控制权

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That is because they judged the personality of people they had never met.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Peter is one of those cases in European history where one person's personality and interest does make an enormous difference.

彼得是欧洲历史上那些,凭借自己的个性和喜好,起到重大影响的例子之一

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John Madden is known for his friendly personality and sense of humor.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

The personality view doesn't say anybody who has any elements at all of my personality is me.

人格理论并没有宣称,任何拥有我人格片段的个体就是我。

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She says it is important to understand how appearance communicates personality.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

My personality is changing in a variety of other ways.

我的人格在以各种方式变化。

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"Everything evil and repulsive about the Iranian regime is reflected in the personality of Ahmadinejad, so in that context he's better for Israel,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Of course, normally the way you get the same personality is by having the same body.

当然通常你只有拥有了同样的肉体,才可能拥有同样的人格。

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"Well,the Methow doesn't have a lot of diversity" she said with a laugh "Philip is just such a warm personality and such a neat story.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

And yet for all that dualists could consistently say, still same soul as not the key to personal identity, same personality is the key to personal identity.

所有的二元论者都可以坚持认为,同样的灵魂并非,人格同一性的关键，同样的人格,才是人格同一性的关键。

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"What we're doing is infusing our personality into the gamelan.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

The problem with--what drove the personality theory into the no branching rule, implausible as it may be,was the fact that your personality is like software,and it can be copied.

看似不可能，但将人格理论，拖入无分支规则的问题就是,人格可被拷贝这个事实。

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Now,remember,according to the personality theory of personal identity, what makes it me is the fact that it's the same evolving personality.

请记住根据个人认同感的人格理论，定义我是我的是相同的进化中的人格。

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And I'm now suggesting that in my own case at least, the something else is,something extra, is same,similar personality.

我现在就要假设，至少对我来说，这其他的东西，就是相同或者相似的人格。

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After all,the problem that fission raises for the personality theory, in a nutshell,is that personalities can split,they can branch.

说到底，人格理论裂变问题的产生，总而言之就是由于人格可以分裂。

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During all of these problems for the personality theorist, the body theorist,the fans of the body theorist,is standing there laughing.

人格理论家被这些问题重重困住，肉体理论家和支持者在一旁笑了。

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So the secret to personal identity on this new proposal isn't sameness of body, is sameness of personality.

所以新提案中人格同一性的关键,不在于同样的肉体,而在于同样的人格。

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So we revise the personality theory to say, the secret to personal identity is having the same personality-- provided that there's no branching.

所以我们对人格理论稍作修改，提出人格理论的秘诀在于-,给人格提供无分支的前提。

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They say this just goes to show what a dumb theory the personality theory is.

他们会说，这就刚好体现了人格理论的失败之处。

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To be Napoleon,you've got to have the very same overall personality, which is a very big,complicated set of beliefs and desires and ambitions and memories.

要成为拿破仑，你必须拥有完全一样的整体人格，那是一整套庞大复杂的信念,欲望，抱负和记忆组合。

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The personality view says follow the personality, that is,the set of beliefs,desires, memories,goals,ambitions,and so forth.

人格理论说追随人格，也就是信念，欲望，记忆，目标，抱负等等的组合。

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In which case,what you're discovering is you don't really believe the personality theory.

不管如何，其实是你不相信人格理论。

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We were raising a difficulty for the personality theory of personal identity according to which the key to being the same person is having the very same ongoing,evolving personality.

我们给判断个人认同感的人格理论,也就是说判断是否是同一个人取决于,是否具有同样的形成中的人格这理论。

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Again, this is part of his split personality about who he was.

这又是他多重人格的一部分

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So it looks as though the personality theorist is going to have to introduce a distinction between my being alive, on the one hand,and my body being alive,on the other.

所以看起来人格理论必须,要弄清楚我的存活，和我的肉体存活之间的区别。

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