The structures in the brain which would underwrite the ability to engage in P-functioning, they're not destroyed by suspended animation.

存在于大脑中的,能够支持人格功能的结构，并没有被假死状态所破坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And details aside,death is a matter of the body breaking, so that it's no longer able to engage in P-functioning.

除开其他细节，死亡只是肉体的破坏，以至于不能再实施人格功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's possible that he's hiding his talent or burying his conceived merits deep within the earth, and it's this frightening possibility that Milton forces himself to engage head on - the implications of this parable.

他不可能总藏着他的才能,或者把他即将成形的文章埋在地下，就是这种可怕的可能性,使弥尔顿敦促自己注意,这则寓言的暗示。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We should be approaching young people, encouraging them to engage, cross our religious boundaries and engage constructively with the same sort of sense of purpose that al-Qaeda recruits young people with a destructive divisive ideology.

我们应该靠近青年人，鼓励他们参与这项事业，跨越宗教界线,鼓励他们具有建设性地参与其中,带着与基地组织招募拥有破坏性的,分裂的意识形态的青年人时有的目的感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And this is consistent then with the repeated warnings in Leviticus to the Israelites not to engage in similar abominable and sinful practices--the sexual transgressions, the bloodshed, the idolatry--because they too will pollute the land until it vomits them out. They will be expelled.

利未记》中不断地警告着人们,不要做出类似的,令人生厌且罪恶的行为，比如性犯罪，杀戮，偶像崇拜等等，因为它们也将玷污这片土地,直到土地将居民“吐出去“，他们将被驱逐。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But for the next week or two when you're writing programs, at least for the first time, generally if you're trying Scratch to debug them like you might have been trying to troubleshoot Scratch, you're probably going to reason - through it by looking through the your code -- -- top to bottom, maybe engage a staff member for help -- but your friend will also be printf.

但是，在接下来的一两周内，当你们写程序的时候，或至少在第一次写的时候，通常如果你在调试程序,就像你们可能已经试着调试过,你们或许是通过查看你们的代码,来推断你们的程序-,从头到尾，可能还需要别人的帮忙-,但是你的朋友也将要打印输出。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Although they will be engaged in P-functioning later on, it's not true right now that they can engage in P-functioning.

虽然他们后来能够有人格功能性，但是现在却没有。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So perhaps in the relevant sense, the person can still engage in P-functioning, so they're not dead. Good enough.

所以也许在相对的条件下，这个人还有人格功能性，他们还没有死，很好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And to be dead then, is to be unable to engage in P-functioning.

而死亡就是，失去了人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.

假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选