We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

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There are corollaries for those ideas in terms of the kinds of effects that literature has and what we might imagine ourselves to conclude from them.

这些想法,都带来一些必然的结果,有关文学的作用，以及我们想象自己能从中得出的结论。

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What we're trying to get at here is--it can be very elusive, but I imagine most of you are familiar with it.

我要表达的意思,可能非常晦涩,但我相信你们大多数对它并不陌生

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So if we asked you which of these two things is food, I can imagine what you'd say.

如果问你这两个中哪个是食品,我能想象你们的答案

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We're going to imagine that there are two candidates, and what these candidates are doing is they're choosing their political positions for an election.

假设有两个候选人,而这两个候选人,为了选举必须确定自己的政治立场

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We can't even imagine what that's like.

我们根本没法想像那是什么样

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I can only imagine though, at this point in the semester, what will become Milton's eventual championing of marriage is pretty hard to imagine, in part because we're just devoting our second class to a literary work given almost entirely to the virtue of chastity.

然而我只能认为，在学期的这个时候，什么将成为弥尔顿婚姻的最终捍卫者,一定难以想象，一部分是因为,我们的第二节课一直在讨论,关于贞洁的美德的作品。

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What we've just done, after all, is imagine that my mind exists but my body does not.

我们刚才所作的,就是想象我的心灵存在,而身体不存在

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So imagine what we're going to look at is a game involving a partnership.

想一下如果博弈中加入了合伙人会怎样

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Well again, maybe what we need to do is not so much just imagine the same cycling going through week after week after week, but whole careers.

但也许我们不需要,想象周而复始的循环,而是整个事业。

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We imagine instead of living 80 years,living 90 or 95 or more We imagine a longer life But what is it that happens when I say ? if only I'd been born earlier?

我们想象不仅活80，90或95岁,我们想象能活更长时间,但如果我想象早点出生,会发生什么情况？

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When we think of the kinds of examples of material machines that we've got available to us in the fourteenth century, I try to imagine what would somebody in the fourteenth century think to himself or herself when he entertains the possibility that a plant might just be a machine?

当我们回想14世纪时期的,各种机器,我试着想象,一个生活在14世纪的人,他,或她,在面对一株植物可能,只不过是一台机器的观点时会怎么想

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