I announced on the first day of class that I don't, myself, believe in the existence of a soul.

第一节课上,我就声明,本人并不相信灵魂的存在

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But for me personally, it doesn't have to be first class.

但是对我个人而言，不一定需要最上乘的。

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But I want to end this first real class with a bit of humility as to what psychologists know and don't know.

最后,作为第一堂教学课的结束,我还是想对心理学家们知道什么,不知道什么,保持一种谦虚的态度

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It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

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