Or I've imagined a story in which my body has perhaps ceased to exist, or I've imagined a story in which I exist, or at least my mind exists.

或者说,我想象着,我的躯体消亡了,也可以说,我存在,或至少我的心灵还存在

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But, it ceased being funny, and it was nothing like the siege of Leningrad where something like a million people died in World War Two of starvation; but, there were all sorts of little caskets being dragged along to what passed then for mortuaries.

但是,这不再那么有趣了,而这和列宁格勒之围比就相形见绌了,二战时期的大概有一百万人,被活活饿死,但是,巴黎有各种棺材,被拖到太平间去

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选