He is Charles Foster Kane. I don't think you can ever pin Welles down,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

You take a pin and you stick it through my flesh of my body and I feel pain in my soul, in my mind.

你拿一根针扎我身体上的肉,我的灵魂,我的心灵就会意识到疼痛

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Because there, it's not known for dive bars with cheap beers and pin darts and, you know, people getting in a bar fight.

因为那里不是因有便宜的啤酒和针头飞镖的廉价酒吧和酒吧打架闹事而闻名。

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"We also looked at the part of the brain called the hippocampus which is very important for forming the sort of memories we make everyday,you know, when you have to remember a pin number or you have to remember how to get somewhere, and the hippocampus, if it's a good size that means you are less likely to develop Alzheimer's,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

You need to pin down an object of study, a first principle from which other principles can emerge, and part of the process is to say, "Hey, it's not literature we're talking about.

首要原则是，需要锁定要谈论，即学习的目标，可是，谁知道什么是文学。

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Because once you actually push people,to pin them down, what do you mean by it,you end up with something that's either just not true, or not interesting,or not necessary, or not particularly unique to death.

因为你一旦逼问他们这到底是什么含义，得到的东西既不会是真实的，也不会是必要和有趣的，也不会是对于死亡来说独特的。

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So it's not that the result is going to be that I'm going to try to convince you that death isn't bad, but it takes actually a little bit of work to pin down precisely what is it about death that's bad and how can it be death?

所以，这么说,并不是我试图让你相信死亡不是坏事，但是这的确要花点时间来准确地说清楚,什么让死亡成了坏事，和怎样才算死亡？

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