thus all these certificates that have-- remember the acte de temoignage,

并因此获得领洗证明书即出生证明
where people say,

人们以此来证明
"I see this baby, the baby is alive,"

"我看到了这个婴儿他是活着的"
and they baptize the baby

他们为婴儿施洗礼
so if the baby dies--

这样如果婴儿死了--
and remember babies died all the time, after childbirth.

要知道婴儿在分娩后非常容易死掉
If you made it to one,year one,

如果能活到一岁
you had a good chance of living to the ripe old age of 40--

那么你将有很大可能活到40岁高龄
that if you didn't baptize the baby and the baby died,

但如果未接受洗礼婴儿就死掉了
then the baby was going to

那这个孩子将会
go to limbo or something and sort of float around;

在地狱的边缘游荡
there were all these popular beliefs about limbo.

当时的人普遍相信地狱边缘这一概念