他们说，在本世纪末之前，无人驾驶的宇宙飞船就能到达那里，让今天活着的人们及时看到它。

They say it could be reached by an unmanned spaceship before the end of the century in time for people alive today to see it.

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于1990年，居住在她的附近的人们每天下午可以听到她演奏钢琴的声音，由此知道她还活着。

In 1990, people living in her neighborhood could hear her playing her piano in the afternoon, and that is how they knew that she was still alive.

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但我的意思不是指活着的人们，而是指我自己。

But what I meant was not the living, it was me.

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But we do know from living cultures that people do engage in all kinds of ritual and symbolic actions because of genuine beliefs about the importance of those actions, because those rituals and symbols are extraordinarily meaningful to them.

但是我们可以在还活着的文化中知道些什么,它们蕴含在人们做的各种宗教仪式和有象征意义的行为中,因为人们诚恳地相信这些行为的重要性，因为这些仪式和象征对他们来说意义重大。

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So, it's something like the life of a person that, when we say, when there are people who are inclined to say, that being alive per so is valuable, presumably what they mean is being alive as a person per se is valuable.

所以这差不多就是人的生活，当说到，当人们说到，活着本身是有价值的，我们便假设它的意思是,作为人活着的本身是有价值的。

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