It's almost a way of inviting us to visualize the separation of these two people as they speak.

这几乎是吸引我们去观察,说话的两个孤立的个体。

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And so what I'm really doing is inviting you to take a good, cold, hard look at death, and to face it and think about it in a way that most of us don't do.

那就是我要你们做的，认清，死亡的好和坏，面对它，然后思考它,用我们从没用过的方式。

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