我们是一个活着的个体。

I am a living individuality.

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你比今天任何一个活着的人都要了解你自己的历史。

You know your history better than any other person alive today.

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接着，他们就发现了一个活着的动物，可是很难把他称之为人。

And they saw some thing that was alive but which could hardlu be called a man.

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If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.

如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他

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How should one live, in light of the facts about death ? that I've been laying out in the semester up to this point?

一个人应该怎样活着，鉴于我这个学期一直讲到这刻的,关于死亡的事实？

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Goncourt, one of the writers, the Goncourts, the one who hadn't died yet, was no friend of ordinary people, but there's an amazing scene in his memoirs when he's down by the Hotel de Ville and he sees these women chained together, being walked around, and he says, "What, where are they going?"

龚古尔,龚古尔两兄弟都是作家,当时还活着的那一个,和平头百姓从来合不来,但在他的回忆录里有这样惊人的一幕,他路过市政厅的时候,看见一些被锁链串成一列的妇女们,正在被游街,他就问,"怎么,她们这是要去哪"

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