We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

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Even there, a horse is not really a rigid body, unless it's been dead for a long time.

马甚至都不是真正的刚体,除非是死了很长时间了

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Every time I try to picture myself being dead, I smuggle myself back in, conscious and existing as a person, hence, not dead as a person.

每次我想象自己的死亡时，就会将自己带入，有意识作为人而存在的状态，所以也就不再处于死亡了。

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Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

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But at least it doesn't seem to be the sort of argument, unlike some of the arguments I've considered last time about oh, nobody believes they're going to die because you can't picture being dead or what have you.

但这至少比我上次思考的，认为没有人相信自己会死，因为你不能想象死亡是什么样子,之类的论据有道理。

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