我猜想这在一定程度上是出于对永生的潜意识渴望。

I suppose part of it is a subconscious desire for immortality.

youdao

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。

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.

youdao

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。

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.

youdao

Well, on the one hand, if we make it be me and similar to me, boredom's going to set in.

一方面，如果永生的是我且与我相似，无聊将成为问题。

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So, I don't think an eternity like that would be such a good thing.

我不觉得那样的永生,会是件好事。

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You've got to imagine changing some of the facts about what it would be like to live forever So instead of asking the question ? the question I started with,would it be good to live forever?

你得想象改变一些,关于永生后果的事实,所以不问我开始时的问题,我们不问永生是好事吗？

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