we're looking for something that's true,necessary,interesting and, if not unique to death,at least not true of everything.

我们要寻找的是真实，必要，有趣的，而且就算不是死亡独有，也不能是普遍事实。

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To me, when you read the detail you're getting into something deep and important about the way everything works and so I start to find it interesting.

对我来说,但你读到细节时,你就会了解到事物机制中,一些深刻并重要的东西了,所以我觉得它很有趣

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If language can refer to just about everything from English to traffic signals, then we're not going to be able to find interesting generalizations or do good science about it.

如果语言能够表示一切,从英语到交通信号,那我们就无法得出各种有趣的概论,或是无法对语言进行科学的研究

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It better not be that everyone does everything alone, because--in whatever the relevant sense of alone turns out to be-- if everyone does everything alone, then of course that might be interesting.

而不是说每个人都是孤独地做着每件事情，因为不管孤独的定义是什么-,如果每个人都在孤独地做着每件事情，这说法固然很有趣。

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These are very interesting results, but sort of the bias that everything should be done with white males that existed for many years hid some of these really interesting and important interactions that otherwise people didn't know much about.

这都是些值得关注的结果,但多年来对白人男性的研究带来的偏见,掩盖了这些有趣而重要的相互关系,人们对此知道得不多

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But we have not yet been able to find a claim,an interpretation, which is true,interesting,fairly special about death, as opposed to trivially true about everything, and giving us some relatively interesting insight into the nature of death.

但还是没有找到一种，真实，有趣并且是死亡独有的，相对于对所有事物的普遍事实来说，并且能给我们关于死亡本质有趣见地的诠释。

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