So for those of you who are nerdy enough to understand the next sentence let me just say it.

对那些已经听烦了的同学,我想先说明这点

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It was really easy for me to just say "Yes, definitely".

我很容易地就下定了决心，“就是耶鲁大学了”。

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I didn't get it. Somebody else will say, can you do number three on the homework for me?

我不懂，还有人会说，你能为我解答家庭作业的第三题吗？

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We might say, well, it's not true now Death isn't bad for me now I'm not dead now ? Maybe death is bad for me when I'm dead?

我们可能会说，反正现在不是真的,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我现在又没死,也许当我死的时候死亡对我有坏处？

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That's right. I feel like, correct me if I'm wrong here, it seems to me there is a particular opportunity for Muslims in America in a sense of, unlike say France, where there is a real like no head scarves in the school.

是的，我个人觉得，似乎对在美国的穆斯林而言,有一个特别的机遇，不像在法国那里学校里面都禁止佩戴头巾。

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At some point, when your dollars were turning into dimes, you'd say, forget this, this is ridiculous, it doesn't make any sense for me to own these risky small-cap stocks.

当一块钱变成一毛钱,你会说,得了吧,这太荒谬,持有这些高风险的小盘股,对我而言没什么好处

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That is to say,what is it for somebody to be me.

也就是说作为我的标准是什么。

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What you could do hundreds of years ago-- and can still do it today-- was go to a bank and present this bond or IOU and say, "What will you give me for it?"

在数百年前你们能做的,在今天还是能够做到的就是,到银行出示这份合约或欠条,问,你们根据它能给我多少钱

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So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?

所以这并不是，就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好，因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢？

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Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?

因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕？

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Now,if you're like Parfit,and for that matter like me then you're going to say,of course I care I want it to be the case that I'm one of the people who's already had the operation I don't want to be one of the people who hasn't yet had the operation ? You might say,how can that make any sense?

如果你们同意帕非特，那也会同意我,你就会说，我当然在意,我希望的情况是,我是已经做完手术的人,我不想是那种,还没做手术的人,你可能会说，这有什么意义？

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