来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第1集 第1集》

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  It's not my purpose or intention here
  我并不打算
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  to try to argue you out of your religious beliefs
  就你的宗教信仰和你争辩
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  or to argue against your religious beliefs.
  或者跟它对立
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  All I'm going to ask is
  我所要求的是
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  that we not appeal to such religious arguments,
  在这节课上 我们不诉诸这类宗教的论证
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  appeal to revelation or the authority of the Bible,
  不会诉诸启示或圣经的权威
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  or what have you, in the course of this argument.
  或是诸如此类的论证
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  In the course of this class.
  在这节课上 我们都不会涉及
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  If you want to,
  如果你愿意
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  you could think of this class as one big hypothetical.
  你可以把它想象成一个大的假设
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  What conclusions would we come to about the nature
  我们能从死亡的本质得出什么样的结论
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  of death if we had to think about
  假如我们必须从