If only we had died in the land of Egypt," the whole community shouted at them, "or if only we might die in this wilderness!

要是能死在埃及就好了“,人们像他们俩大喊，“或者我们能死在荒原中就好了“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Well,a fan of the claim that we all die alone might come back and say, Well,in the case of the string quartet, although it's true that I am playing with others, somebody could take my part.

一个相信人是孤独而死的人也许会说，在弦乐四重奏的例子中，虽然我确实是在和其他人一起演奏，有人是可以替代我的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well,in the same way,if we could find some behavior on our part that calls out for explanation, that the best possible explanation would be that at some level we don't believe we're going to die, then we might say,look, this gives us some reason to think that we don't really believe we're going to die, even though we say we believe it.

同样，如果我们发现自己有些行为有待解释，这最好的解释可能就是,在某种程度上，我们不相信自己会死，然后我们说，看，这让我们有理由相信，我们并不相信我们会死，即使我们口头上说相信。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选