The ordered swirl of houses and streets from this high angle sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had.

从这个高的视角，看到的像漩涡一般,排列有序的房屋和街道，就像当初的印刷电路一样，以未曾预料的，令人惊讶的清晰感。

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Ivan Ilyich The astonishing thing is that Ivan Ilyich is shocked to discover that he's mortal.

令人惊讶的是,发现自己会死时非常受震撼。

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It is--could legitimately be seen as one of the most astonishing things that people do.

这可以被合理地看做,是人类所做出的最惊人的事情

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It was absolutely astonishing.

这绝对令人吃惊。

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And, in particular, I want to lead off the class with an idea that the Nobel Prize winning biologist, Francis Crick, described as "The Astonishing Hypothesis."

我想先提到一种观点,这种观点的提出者是位诺贝尔奖得主,生物学家,弗兰西斯·克里克,他将这种观点称为"惊人的假说"

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And The Astonishing Hypothesis is summarized like this.

这一惊人的假说大致观点如下

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It is fair to describe this as astonishing.

用"惊人"来形容这个观点是贴切的

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It was astonishing enough that somebody-- but perhaps understandable--that somebody in that situation would decide to take a class on death and then have himself, submit himself, to my getting up here week after week, there's no prospect for an afterlife, it's a good thing that we're all going to die.

某个，某个处于那种情况下的人-,会决定上一门有关死亡的课,然后一周接一周地让自己来上我的课,忍受我讲的没有来世，我们所有人都会死是好事，这是足够让人震惊的，但也许也是可以理解的。

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As he writes, The Astonishing Hypothesis is that: You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

正如他在其著作《惊人的假说》中写到,你,你的喜悦,悲伤,回忆,抱负,你对人格同一性的感知,你的自由意志,事实上,这一切都不过,是大量神经细胞集,与其缔合分子的生理反应而已

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