我试图让自己相信一切都正常。

I tried to kid myself (that) everything was normal.

《牛津词典》

上周，一个网球击中了我的头，但我试图忽视疼痛，相信痛感迟早会消失的。

Last week a tennis ball hit me on the head, but I tried to ignore the pain, believing that it would go away sooner or later.

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我相信这场风暴是小岛试图阻止他们离岛的方式。

I believe the storm was the Island's way of attempting to prevent them from leaving.

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So it's not that the result is going to be that I'm going to try to convince you that death isn't bad, but it takes actually a little bit of work to pin down precisely what is it about death that's bad and how can it be death?

所以，这么说,并不是我试图让你相信死亡不是坏事，但是这的确要花点时间来准确地说清楚,什么让死亡成了坏事，和怎样才算死亡？

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