来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡第26集第26集》

big mystery which we can't get our heads around.

我们理解不了的艰深奥秘
Death is in some sense no more mysterious than the fact

死亡在某种意义上并不比
that your lamp can break, or your computer can break,

灯泡坏掉或着电脑坏掉
or any other machine will eventually fail.

或任何其它机器坏掉神秘多少
I never meant to claim that

但我并不是说
it's not regrettable that we die the way we do.

死亡不令人遗憾
As I argued when talking about immortality,

当谈到永生时我说过
better still would be if only we had the prospect of living

假如生活还能给我们更多东西
as long as life still had something left to offer us.

那么就值得继续过下去
As long as life would be good overall,

只要总的来讲生活是好事
death is bad,

死亡就是坏事
and I think for most of us

而且我认为对大多数人来说