来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第22集 第22集》

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  there are ways in which it makes sense
  有令人信服的理由说明
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  for the facts about death to influence how we live,
  死亡影响了我们的生活方式
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  what our attitudes are, what are emotions are.
  我们的观念 我们的情感
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  Kafka, for example, said
  例如 卡夫卡说过
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  the meaning of life is the fact that it ends.
  生命的意义在于其终将陨落
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  Nice little cryptic saying, as is typical of Kafka.
  隽永的警句 卡夫卡经典风格
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  But the suggestion, I suppose, is a fairly common one,
  但它的含义 我想却很平常
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  that it's something deep about how we should live,
  我们必有一死 生命最终会抵达终点
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  that we're going to die, that our life will come to an end.
  对我们如何生活有着深刻的影响
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  And the question we want to then explore is how should the fact,
  那么我们下面的问题就是
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  how should recognizing the fact, that we're going to die,
  意识到自己必有一死
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  influence how we live?
  会怎样影响我们的生活方式