He wrote to her: "I want the lighter of my seven lamps of beauty, honour, laughter, music, love, life and immortality", but the relationship smouldered almost entirely on paper.
萧曾写信给她说,“想你是点火者,点亮我美丽、幽默、欢笑、音乐、爱、生命和永生的七盏灯。”然而他们的关系名义上几乎是尽了。
But this suggests a strategy: the route to immortality is to find a way to increase this probability over time.
但是,这也为我们提供了一种战略:不朽的路径就是找到增加概率的方法。
It is said that this joyful attitude towards death is a legacy of the Dacians who believed in the immortality of the soul and that death was only a passage to a better life.
据说这种对待死亡的愉悦态度是因为达契亚传说中关于死亡的说法,他们相信灵魂的永生,死亡只是通向更好生活的通道。
And so the heart of the dialogue consists of a series of arguments in which Socrates attempts to lay out his reasons for believing in the immortality of the soul.
所以这部对话录的核心,是由一系列的讨论组成的,其中苏格拉底试图摆出他的原因,让人相信灵魂是不朽的。
Or, and this is the same: in his unconscious, every one of us is convinced of his immortality.
或者这样说也一样,潜意识里,每个人都相信自己是永生的。
We've been looking at Plato's arguments for the immortality of the soul, and so far, I have to say I haven't found them very compelling arguments.
我们研究了柏拉图关于,灵魂不朽的论证,到目前为止,我要说的是,我发现这些论证并不是很有说服力。
Because of some botched neurosurgery, he'll soon be confined there — a kind of death, but also a kind of immortality, since in the unconscious there is no time.
后来因为失败的神经外科手术,他最后会被禁锢在那个世界里——可能是死亡,亦可称做永生,因为在潜意识的世界里,时间是不存在的。
With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life, mortality or immortality?
毕业临近,贝拉也需要面对生命中最重要的一个决定:死亡还是永生?
The drama of the series begins with the murder of Harry's parents and turns on an emphatically humorless villain who seeks immortality at any price.
而其电影系列的第一个镜头,就是哈利父母被杀,而后出现的就是那个为求永生不择手段的恶魔。
The three spend months on the run in various forests as they try to find and destroy the Horcruxes — the seven pieces of Voldemort's soul, which grant him immortality as long as they remain intact.
他们三个用了数月的时间,逃亡在各处的森林里,而且还要想方设法找到并且摧毁可以让伏地魔有不死之躯附有他灵魂的七件魂器。
Who's never heard of Walt Disney's quest for immortality by having his body frozen?
谁从来没有听说过沃尔特·迪斯尼通过让他的身体冷冻来达到永生的追求呢?
It is the ideas we hold and the way we pursued them that is the source of our immortality.
我们坚持的信念和追求信念的方式,才是不朽的源泉。
The true meaning of the cult of Osiris is that it grants immortality.
伊西斯神崇拜的精要就在于她有赐予人永生的神力。
Newton, in contrast, was walking proof that one path to immortality, assuming you have the requisite endowment of brains, is to obsess.
与他相比,牛顿本身就是一个不朽的例证,如果你要名垂青史,首先得要有必要的大脑天赋,然后很重要的一点就是要有嗜好。
And so, armed with a soul, as it were, there's at least the possibility of immortality.
因此,拥有一个灵魂,实际上,至少有永生的可能性。
What we need to really become convienced of the immortality of the soul even if we were convinced, is not the mere suggestion that the soul was around before our birth.
能真正说服我们,灵魂是不朽的,即使我们承认灵魂不朽,并不仅仅是因为,灵魂存在于出生之前这样的推测。
So until next time,I invite you to think that question through If you're trapped into the prospect of immortality ? what would the best kind of immortal life be like?
在下堂课之前我请你们思考这个问题,如果你们被困在永生的未来中,那最美好的永生会是什么样的?
So even if immortality would be bad, there would be certain things you could do that could end it.
所以即使不朽是不好的,你也能做某些事去结束它。
Notes: Those with long beards, devout followers, and immortality are often misdiagnosed.
注释:那些留有长胡须,拥有忠心的追随者,并且有不朽名称的人经常被误诊。
Still--the fact that we can put an end to it, that's the point we've already been flagging, that immortality would not be so good.
我们能将之结束的事实,正是我们一直在阐释的观点,就是永生并非好事。
It's compatible with thinking that immortality would be bad to think that in fact death comes too soon.
这与认为永生是坏事的想法相符,而实际上死亡提前来临。
He was the king of Uruk, a city in southern Mesopotamia, who sought immortality by searching for the "Stairway to Heaven and the abode of the Gods."
他是乌鲁克的国王,乌鲁克是南美索不达米亚的一个城市,他通过寻找“通往天国的阶梯和神的住所”来寻求不朽。
'I might have written' immortality 'on the list thinking I would never achieve it, but it turns out I wasn't as far off as I imagined.'
我曾经把“永生”列在清单上,那时我想我永远无法完成,但事实上,我离死亡没那么近。
If curing all human ills will be a piece of cake for a superhuman intelligence, then the singularity carries with it the promise of immortality - as long as you're still alive when it happens.
对于一个超人智能来说,如果治疗人类所有疾病都不过是小意思,那么与奇点一同到来的自然该有长生不老的承诺——只要它发生的时候你还在世。
Ultimately, however, they aim to create a personalised, conscious avatar embodied in a robot - effectively enabling you, or some semblance of you, to achieve immortality.
最终,不管怎样,他们的目标是创造一个具有人类情感和自主意识的机器人化身-实际上是使你或者你的某些外表成为不朽。
Although its practices vary widely it generally advocates self-discipline and good living as a way to attain immortality as well as elaborate rituals to purge individuals or communities of evil.
虽然其做法千差万别,但一般主张通过自律和良好的生活来达到永生,以及精心的仪式来清除个人或者组织的罪恶。
Most tycoons like the idea of their children running their empires when they are dead; I suppose part of it is a subconscious desire for immortality.
多数企业大亨希望,在自己去世后,由子女接管他们的帝国;我猜想这在一定程度上是出于对永生的潜意识渴望。
TELL a Greek or an Italian that the only certainties in life are death and taxes and they will laugh-and not because they believe in immortality.
告诉希腊人或者意大利人,说生活中有把握的事情唯有死亡和税收,他们就会发笑- - - - - - -这可不是因为他们相信人会长生不老。
With many groups predicting that human immortality is just around the corner, you could say we all have a vested interest in the answer.
由于许多团体预测,人类不休指日可待,你可以说我们都有一个既定的答案。
Open that old tome from the bookshelf over the fireplace, stick your nose in its pages and smell the ink, the glue and the immortality of the printed words.
在火炉上方的架子上,您可以看到那中大书。翻开这本大书,将鼻子贴近书面,您可以闻到墨香,书胶,还有文字的古老气息。
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