Yet,even though you may be angry, I would know that at heart, you are a kind person.

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One is I've been talking as though a person is a combination, kind of a soul and body sandwich.

一点是我已经谈论过的,人是一种组合,有点儿像灵魂和肉体三明治

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So even though we might have started with 500 some odd people, it very quickly became a 250 person problem and then a 125 person problem.

尽管刚开始的时候,人数是500左右，很快就变成了一个250人的问题,再变成125人的问题。

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And we might even say elusively it says though she is a whole new person.

我们甚至可以巧妙地说,她已经焕然一新了。

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If we say that to be a person is to be a P-functioning body, it seems then as though we have to conclude that when you're not P-functioning, you're dead.

如果说人是一个有人格功能性的实体，似乎就能得出以下结论,如果你没有人格功能性，你就是死亡的。

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Or perhaps, strictly speaking, what we should say is the only part that's essential to the person is the soul, though it's got a rather intimate connection to a particular body.

或者,严格地说来,我们可以表达为,灵魂是人最本质的部分,尽管它和肉体间保持着密切的联系

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It's as though somebody brought in this delicious meal to a hungry-- before a hungry person--allowed them to see what it looked like, allowed them to smell the delicious aromas, perhaps gave them just one little tiny forkful to see just how beautifully delicious the food was.

就好像某人带了这顿美味的饭菜给一个饿的-,放在一个饥饿的人面前，允许他们看到饭菜，允许他们闻到这美味的香味，也许给了他们一小勺让他们看看,这食物有多美味。

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