The death of Edward King is really forcing him to question the point of his pursuit of greatness, of poetic fame, and all of his ambition.

爱德华·金的死迫使他询问自己,他这样追求伟大与名望，他这样的雄心壮志到底有何意义。

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Maybe at the conscious level he believed he was mortal, but at the unconscious level he believed he was immortal.

也许他有意识地相信自己是会死的，但潜意识地，他又相信自己不会死。

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The lifetime earnings of a tightwire walker who falls down and kills himself aren't very good.

一个掉下来摔死自己的走钢丝的人,他一生的收入也不会很好。

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You see, before he died, Bentham addressed himself to a question consistent with his philosophy.

在他死之前，边沁身体力行了他自己的哲学。

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He wasn't planning on dying.

他并不知道他自己会死

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But does he thoroughly and truly and fundamentally believe he's mortal?

但他确实彻底真正地,相信自己必死吗？

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We might say,on one level he believes that he was mortal.

我们可以说，某程度上他相信自己会死。

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This is what takes him aback, to discover that he's mortal.

就是这点让他惊讶，发现自己会死。

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Maybe he gives lip service to the claim that he was mortal.

也许他只是嘴上说说相信自己会死。

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But faced with the question what should he do, what did he want to do with his remaining couple of years, what he decided he wanted to do -- was finish his Yale degree-- thought he'd set himself the goal of graduating college before he died.

但面对着他该做什么这个问题，在他剩余的几年生命里他想要做的事，他所决定的他想要做的事,是完成他的耶鲁学位-,认为他想给自己设定在死之前,从大学毕业的目标。

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