They typically--they like to talk about the politics of it and this thing, that it's dead on arrival or it'ssomeone said it's an amateurish proposal.

他们不约而同地大书特书这个改革的政治色彩,或者说些这个计划死定了之类的话,有的人还说这是个欠考虑的改革计划。

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If we take this simple straightforward view and say you're dead when you're not P-functioning anymore, then you were dead,on and off and on and off,last night.

如果我们就用那直接简单的观点,说你就是死了，不再有人格功能了，昨晚你就不断地死亡和复活中度过。

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- You were watching reruns on television-- the next minute, you're dead.

你在看电视上的重播-,下一刻，你就死了。

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And one of the things that's striking is, how similar the experience is from person to person and from culture to culture-- that they've got some notion, as they were dead on the operating table, of leaving their body.

而其中最振奋的就是,不管一个人的,生活经验及文化背景,有多相似,他们都能感受到,当他们在手术台上死去,身体已经逝去

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