I think,as far as I can see,that the claim we all die alone, however we interpret it,just ends up being implausible or false.
在我看来,说我们全都会孤独而死,无论怎样解释都是不合理的,错误的。
So despite the fact that the claim we all die alone is one of these things that one hears, I think it's just nonsense.
所以虽然有说法不绝于耳,说我们都将孤独而死,我觉得这完全不值一提。
We all know what "to die" means in early modern poems.
我们都知道早期现代诗歌中,“去死“这两个字是什么意思。
re so hated in many parts of the world that any policy initiative with our name on it is dead on arrival.
世界上有很多人憎恨我们,We’,任何起草的政策,只要有我们的名字在上面,都必死无疑。
It's as though we need--Normally, we think that look, either you're alive or you're dead.
通常我们都认为,人不是死就是活着。
The objection is similar to the kind of dismissive attitude that we saw at the beginning of the course about the question, "Could I survive my death?"
这个反驳和这门课伊始我们讨论的,某个问题一样都带着某种轻蔑的态度,我们能幸免于死吗
It makes me feel even worse that everybody else is stuck dying-- or perhaps we should say dying too soon in light of our discussion about immortality.
所有人都为死而苦恼让我感到更糟糕-,或者我们应该说,按照我们对永生的讨论,是死得太早。
On that straightforward interpretation,to say that everybody dies alone, what we're saying is that it's true of each one of us that he or she dies not in the presence of others.
对于说人都是孤独而死的最直接的诠释,就是说我们死去的时候,身边没有他人的存在。
Remember,we're looking for a claim that says, that makes it true,that everyone dies alone.
记住,我们要探讨的说法是,每个人都是孤独而死的。
Because we all die too soon.
因为我们都死得太早了。
Somebody saying,Oh,we all die alone.
有人说,我们都将孤独而死。
If,when we interpret the claim everyone dies alone, that just ends up being a slightly pretentious way of saying everyone dies, we might say,oh yeah,that is true and it is a necessary truth, but it's not especially surprising.
如果我们对每个人都孤独而死的诠释,只是装模作样地说明人终有一死,那我们会说,这是真理,也是必要的,但并没有什么好惊奇的。
but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?
而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于,这样一种相信的状态,虽然我们都声称自己会死,是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢?
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