The zebra finch survives well in captivity. That makes it both a popular pet and a favorite subject for researchers.

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But, it doesn't guarantee it, because absent further argumentation, there's no guarantee that the soul survives the death of the body.

但这不能保证,由于缺乏进一步的论证,我们无法保证,在肉体死亡后灵魂仍然存活

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Third question that might interest us, that does interest us, is this: If it survives, how long does it survive?

第三个问题我们也许会感兴趣,我们肯定会感兴趣,那就是,如果灵魂活下来,它会活多久

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Then,the first time you get a list by any Christian that we still possess,that is extant, that survives,that has the twenty-seven books of the New Testament that is in our bible,is in the year 367.

由基督教徒列出的,现在仍然存在的，并且包括新约里27本书的,最早书目出现于主后367年。

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The result survives this change.

因为它的变化不会引起结果的改变

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Yet despite the false starts, and the trials, and the years of famine, and the childlessness, and the infertility, the seed of Abraham survives, and the promise is reiterated: "I will go down myself with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you back."

但尽管有错误的开始，试验和多年饥荒，断子绝孙和贫瘠，亚伯拉罕的子孙还是得以幸免，许诺被重新申明：,“我要和你同下埃及去，也必定带你上来“

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Do we have any good reason to believe the soul survives the death of the body?

我们有什么理由去相信,灵魂在肉体死亡后仍能存活

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We need to posit the soul, something immaterial that survives the death of the body, that can leave the body, go up to heaven; though, as it happens in these cases, the tie is never completely broken.

我们需要假设灵魂,某种非物质的,能在肉体死后还存在的东西,能离开肉体,升入天堂,尽管,正如在这些例子里发生的,它们之间的联系从未完全破裂

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