And here I want to distinguish between the individual question about the inevitability of death, and the universal question.

在这里我要区分,死亡必然性的个人性，以及普遍性。

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We talked about the inevitability of death; we talked about the variability, that people have different lengths of time before they die.

我们讨论过了死亡的不可避免性;,我们讨论过了其可变性，不同的人在他们死之前有所的时间长度不同。

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We have the dialectic of suspense on the one hand, how will this be resolved, and inevitability on the other, "Oh, it's a folk tale, it'll be resolved, don't worry about it."

我们一方面有悬念的对立，就不可避免地会有，另一个方面，即这个会怎样解决，“哦，这是个传说，这会解决的，不用担心它“

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Against that, however, there are those people who'd want to say, " "No. Actually, the inevitability of my death reduces the badness."

然而，与此相反，有些人会说，“不，实际上，死亡的必然性让坏处减轻了“

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In addition to the inevitability, in addition to the variability, in addition to the unpredictability, there's the fact that death is, as I like to think of it, ubiquitous.

除了不可避免性之外，除了可变性之外，除了不可预知性之外，还有个事实便是死亡，是无处不在的，正如我所想的那样。

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So perhaps there's some comfort in the inevitability of death.

这样面对死亡必然性也许还有些安慰。

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