来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第18集 第18集》

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  I would have been born 10 years earlier.
  我就能早出生10年了
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  Well, so Nagel's wrong in saying it's not possible
  所以内格尔说提前出生是不可能的
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  to imagine being born earlier.
  他说错了
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  In at least some cases, it is.
  至少在某些情况下 是可能的
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  Yet, if we imagine somebody like this,
  如果我们想象有个人
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  somebody who's an offspring of this kind of fertility clinic,
  在这个生殖医疗中心出生
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  and we ask, would they be upset
  如果我们问他
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  that they weren't born earlier?
  没早点出生他感到不安吗
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  again, it still seems as though most people would say,
  同样 大多数人可能都会回答
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  "No, of course not."
  "不 当然不了"
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  So the Nagel answer doesn't seem
  所以内格尔的回答
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  to me to be an adequate one.
  在我看来 并不充分