My lectures are going to presume no special knowledge on your part.

我的课程并不需要你们有什么专业性的知识储备。

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And then, I presume, we would continue to enjoy it forever.

到时我们就会永远享受。

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But if,unbeknownst to me,and I presume unbeknownst to you, there's somebody in Michigan right now who's got Shelly Kagan's personality, Shelly Kagan then we have to say,huh,it turns out I'm not Shelly Kagan after all.

然而我不知道，假设你们也不知道，现在在密西根有个家伙也拥有Shelly，Kagan的人格，然后我们不得不说，看来我并不是。

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We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

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