I read all kinds of remarkable books and yet I can never make out what direction I should take, what it is that I want, properly speaking."

我读过各种各样的名著,但是我还不能决定我接下来要走的方向以及想要追求的东西，以便能得体地讲话“

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Should I live or should I shoot myself?"--properly speaking, "To be or not to be?"

我是该活着还是该打死自己？“的时候，会想到用得体的话说应该是“生存还是毁灭？“

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Roughly speaking,the answer,presumably, on the physicalist view,is going to be something like-- if I'm alive when we've got a P-functioning body, roughly speaking,I die when that stops happening, when the body breaks and it stops functioning properly.

粗略地说，从物理主义者角度看来，答案大概就是-,如果我有人格功能我就活着，粗略地说，那种人格功能停止时我就死了，当身体被破坏，机能停止时，我就死了。

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He's perpetually seeking a mode of properly speaking.

他一直都试图能够得体讲话。

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