One sort of opens up the beginning of life here and the other closes it down through a referencing of death.

前者讲的是生命的开始,后者通过诠释死亡,讲述了生命的终结

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It could be me that-- my cabin could burn down and I would freeze to death in the winter.

因为也许中招的会是我-,我的房子可能被烧毁,冬天我可能会被冻死。

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Death is basically just the breaking down of the body, on the physicalist point of view, so that it no longer functions properly.

死亡从根本上说就是我们肉体的损坏,在物理主义看来,肉体再也不能正常工作了

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He's going to close it back down here with death and he's going to close it back down using a process that we frequently encounter in music, and that is this idea of dissonance resolving to consonance.

他要描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,他要用一种我们常在音乐中邂逅的方式,描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,这就是使不和谐音解构为和音,这个理念

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So it's not that the result is going to be that I'm going to try to convince you that death isn't bad, but it takes actually a little bit of work to pin down precisely what is it about death that's bad and how can it be death?

所以，这么说,并不是我试图让你相信死亡不是坏事，但是这的确要花点时间来准确地说清楚,什么让死亡成了坏事，和怎样才算死亡？

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