我们生来就注定要分解死亡，即使在理想的条件下也是如此。

We are genetically programmed to disintegrate and perish, even under ideal conditions.

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要想长得高大，一棵树需要具备三个条件：合适的育苗地点、良好的生长条件和大量低成虫死亡率的时间。

To achieve giant stature, a tree needs three things: the right place to establish its seedling, good growing conditions and lots of time with low adult mortality.

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人们发现，造成80%的产妇死亡的条件，其发生率和致死率由于饥饿和营养不良而提高。

Hunger and malnutrition have been found to increase both the incidence and the fatality rate of the conditions that cause up to 80 percent of maternal deaths.

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That's only going to be true if dying as a joint undertaking is impossible.

这只能在共同死亡是不可能的条件下才是真的。

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Everybody who dies awake,realizing that they're dying, facing the fact that they're dying, they all,we all of whom that's true, we all die alone,as long as we realize we're dying.

每个人在清醒着，意识到自己死亡的情况下，面对自己死亡这个事实，我们所有人，在意识到自己死亡的条件下，都是孤独的死去。

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But it's often seemed to people that if we really believe that death is the end-- and that's the assumption that I'm making here on out-- if we really believe death is the end, how can death be bad for me?

但是通常我们都会认为死亡就是终结-,我现在所设定的条件就是-,如果我们真的相信死亡就是终点，死亡对我来说有什么不好呢？

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