Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

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Look, you have a dream where your dead mother has come back to talk to you.

你做了一个梦,梦见你死去的妈妈回来跟你说话

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It's as though we need--Normally, we think that look, either you're alive or you're dead.

通常我们都认为,人不是死就是活着。

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I was in The British War Museum, the Imperial War Museum the other day, and I'd been there four or five times, and I went--and they have a thing where you can look up dead people.

我去过英国军事博物馆,有一天去帝国军事博物馆,我去过四五次了,我又去了,那有一个,东西你可以搜索阵亡人

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And haven't I just said, "Look, you can't picture being dead"?

我刚才不是说过，人无法想象自己的死亡？

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should we conclude therefore, given that we've got the premise, "If you can't picture it or imagine it, then you can't believe in it," since I've just said, look, you can't imagine being dead, but that's not due to any failure of imagination, that's because there's nothing there to imagine or picture.

于是我们就应该基于这个前提，想象不了的东西就不能相信，得出结论吗“,我刚才已经说过，人不能想象自己的死亡，不是因为想象的失败，而是本来就没有东西可以想象。

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