来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第12集 第12集》

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  It's one thing to say people are space-time worms
  一种说法认为人类是时空虫
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  extended through space and extended through time.
  在空间和时间之中不断延伸发展
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  It's another thing to say that
  还有一种说法是
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  they are Y-shaped space-time worms.
  人类是以这种Y字型结构发展的时空虫
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  It seems to violate one of
  这似乎又违背了一项
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  the fundamental metaphysical things about how people work.
  有关人的形而上学的基本观点
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  All right, I've got to remind you though,
  不过我得提醒你们
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  none of the options here are all that attractive.
  以上这些可能性都不怎么令人信服
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  So when I say,
  所以当我说
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  you don't want to say that, you don't want to say that,
  你不能做出这样那样的定论时
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  we're going to run out of possibilities.
  我们就能逐渐排除错误的可能性
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  So maybe this is what you'll want to say.
  继而得出我们接下来的结论