来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第16集 第16集》

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  it seems that somebody could take my place at the guillotine.
  似乎也有人能够代替我上断头台
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  In the American Civil War, there was a draft,
  美国内战时期 举国征兵
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  but you could avoid it by hiring somebody to take your place,
  如果你足够富有
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  if you were rich enough.
  你大可以雇个人代替你参军
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  Well, you're in some battle,
  假如你在某场战役中
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  or rather, your troop is in some battle,
  或者你的部队处于某场战役中
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  and people are being killed left and right.
  你身边的人都死了
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  Well, I suppose it doesn't strike me as an implausible thing to
  因此也许可以说
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  say that if everybody in the troop got killed and you
  如果你所在部队的所有人都牺牲了
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  would have gotten killed had you been there, but instead,
  你要在队里的话就死定了 然而
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  the person you hired to take your place gets killed,
  实际上是你雇佣的那个人死了
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  then he took your place. He substituted for you in the death.
  他代替了你 替你牺牲了