With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

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I ought to say a word about death, in order to comprehend what the Greeks thought. You know, different peoples have had different ideas about them.

我得说一下有关死亡的事儿,好让你们更容易理解希腊人的思维,你们知道,不同人对于死亡的观念是不同的

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But there are a handful of claims that people make about death suggesting that they think, and they think we all think, that death is mysterious or unique or hard to comprehend.

但是有部分关于死亡的说法,在他们看来，或者他们认为大家都认为，死亡是神秘，特殊，或者难以理解的。

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You can't come up with a number to describe the twenty-five standard deviation event; it's just too large a number, I think, for any of us to really comprehend.

你根本无法想出一个数字,来描述这个偏离25倍标准差的事件,对我们普通人来说,这是个难以想象的天文数字

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And if you're working with your friend, you can tell him or her whatever you're thinking and it's not going to offend him or her and they'll probably comprehend it similarly to how you imagined it in languages that really are a perfect idea of transmission vehicle.

如果你跟朋友一起工作，可以把所思所想都说出来,而不会冒犯他,朋友会以类似的方式,去理解你想象中的事物,语言并不是完美的,思想传导载体。

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