该员工说：“正如西方谚语所说：永远不会改变的就是死亡和税收。”

As the Western saying goes, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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他们把这怪罪于一个歪曲事实的看法——巴基斯坦充满了针对西方国家密谋死亡袭击、破坏的基要派分子。

This they blame on the unfair perception that Pakistan is full of fundamentalists plotting death and destruction in the West.

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同样这也标志了西方人勇敢的性格。它使得那些死亡受到尊崇的那些地方变得丑陋。

And it is likewise a mark of courage characteristic of the Occident to have made so ugly the places where death thinks itself honored.

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And the dialogue ends with one of the great moving death scenes in western civilization and as Plato says-- let's get the quote here exactly right-- "Of all those we have known, he was the best and also the wisest and the most upright."

然后对话以一个,西方文明史上最伟大感人的死亡场景结束,用柏拉图的话说,让我们引用的更准确些,在我们所知的所有人中,他是最好,最有智慧,最正直的人

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And so, in addition to philosophical arguments for and against the existence and immortality of the soul, we end the dialogue with a quite moving death scene, one of the great death scenes, if we could call it that, of western civilization.

所以,支持和反对,灵魂的存在与不朽的论证,以一个感人至深的死亡场景告终,这简直就是西方文明史上,最伟大的死亡场景之一,如果我们可以这样说的话

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