It's also a subject that we can find in the reading journal that Milton kept for the better part of his life.

它也是弥尔顿阅读笔记中的一个主题,那份阅读笔记是弥尔顿在其人生最美好时光中保存下来的。

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So, I want to turn to that topic and spend oh, probably the better part of a lecture or so.

我想转向这个话题,用讲座的大部分时间。

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It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

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So if we want belief in a soul to help us leave open the door to the possibility that I survive the destruction of my body, it had better not be that the body is an essential part of me.

因此如果我们相信灵魂,可以帮助我们在幸免一死的,问题上打开一扇窗,那么必须是肉体不是我的重要组成部分

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