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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The causal paths that result in death may start different, but I presume that they converge and you end up having a set of events take place.

不同的手段导致死亡的方式不同,但是我认为有一点是相同的,你的死亡伴随着这一系列的事情发生

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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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I presume that none of you have that belief.

我假定你们中没有人有那个信念。

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I presume that's not what people meant either.

我假设这也不是人们要说的意思。

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After all, a blade of grass is alive, and I presume that even fans of the, what we might call valuable container theories, don't think that, " "Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if-- " as long as I was alive in the way that a blade of grass is alive."

毕竟，一片草叶也是活着的，我觉得就算是，有价值容器理论的粉丝们，也不会认为，“活着不是很棒吗-,“即便是像一片草叶那样活着“

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Now, for all that, notice, I presume that Ivan Ilyich had a will.

即便如此，请注意我假设Ivan，Ilyich设有遗嘱。

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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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