But in fact, logically speaking at least, variability, although it's a requirement for unpredictability, doesn't guarantee unpredictability.

但实际上，至少在逻辑上讲，可变性虽然是不可预见性的必要条件，但是不可预见性却不是必然。

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All of this suggests then that the unpredictability of our death adds an extra negative element.

这一切表明,死亡的不可预见性,添加了额外的负面因素。

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one way in which unpredictability at least has the potential of making things worse is this.

不可预见性,使事情更糟糕的一种情况是。

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Even if we didn't have unpredictability, I mean rather, even if we had unpredictability, it wouldn't necessarily follow that death was pervasive in this way.

即使我们没有不可预知性，我的意思其实是，即使我们有不可预知性，但死也未必会,按照这种方式遍布。

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Because you don't know how much more time you've got-- You can make a guess based on statistics, but as we saw, there's wild unpredictability.

因为你不知道你剩下多少时间-,你可以根据数据进行猜测，但是我们都知道，不可预见性太难把握。

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Now, that being the case, we have to worry then that because of the unpredictability of death that our lives may not have the ideal shape.

既然是这样，那么我们会变得担心起来,由于存在死亡的不可预见性,我们的生命线可能不会是理想的形状。

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In our world, not only do we have variability, we've got unpredictability.

在我们的世界不仅有可变性，还有不可预见性。

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In addition to the inevitability, in addition to the variability, in addition to the unpredictability, there's the fact that death is, as I like to think of it, ubiquitous.

除了不可避免性之外，除了可变性之外，除了不可预知性之外，还有个事实便是死亡，是无处不在的，正如我所想的那样。

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Right? Because of unpredictability, you can't really know.

对吧？因为有不可预见性，你无法知道这些事。

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And we turned to a discussion of the unpredictability of death, -- the fact that because we don't know-- we can't predict--how much more time we've got, we may, as it were, pace ourselves incorrectly.

我们转而讨论死亡的不可预测性，因为我们不知道-,我们不能预测--我们还有多少时间，我们可能，可以说是，为自己定错了前进的速度。

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The unpredictability makes it worse.

不可预见性让事情更糟糕了。

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But there's no unpredictability.

但是这都可以预见。

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What about unpredictability?

那么不可预见性呢？

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