"What happens when you get close to an anniversary is suddenly those images are back on TV.

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Their ships, their boats were not very seaworthy; storms come up in the Mediterranean very suddenly and terribly; you take your life in your hands when you travel.

他们航海的工具,船只,还非常脆弱,地中海可怕的风暴神出鬼没,当时出海就意味着,你把自己交给命运处置

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And things we've been repeating year after year after year, because they sound so reasonable, suddenly sound unreasonable when some of you point out some aspect of it that you didn't follow.

我们年复一年地重复着那些,听起来天经地义的知识,突然会变得苍白无力,就因为你们中有人指出了,一些你没理解的问题

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Or one of my favorite examples, you could be sitting in your-- you read this sort of thing in the newspaper periodically-- you could be sitting in your living room when suddenly an airplane crashes into your house, killing you.

或者像我最喜欢用的一个例子那样，你可能坐在你-,你按时读报纸之类的东西-,你可能正坐在你家起居室里,这时突然有架飞机撞进了你家，杀死了你。

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