The reason I tell you this is that I don't want people feeling that, well, the paper is going to start to decompose or something if I don't get to him by 5:00 today.

我给你的解释是,我不想让人感到，试卷开始变质,或是我不能在今天五点前和他见面。

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We need to believe that the soul, unlike an engine, can't itself be destroyed, can't itself decompose, can't fall apart.

我们需要相信的是，灵魂和发动机不同，自己不会毁灭，自己不会腐烂，自己不会变成碎片。

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Let's decompose these to the elements.

那么我们来看这一系列的反应。

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