来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第14集 第14集》

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  Think some more about Phase D and ask.
  再考虑一下D阶段
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  All right, so this is something that's--
  好的 那么这时候
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  If the personality function's been destroyed,
  如果人格功能毁坏了
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  can't be recovered, can't be fixed,
  不能恢复 也不能修复
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  but the rest of the bodily functioning is still going on.
  但是肉体功能正常运转
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  The heart's pumping, the lungs are breathing and so forth.
  心脏在跳动 肺在呼吸 等等
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  The body's able to digest food.
  肉体还可以消化食物
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  There we are in Phase D, in something like, perhaps,
  我们在D阶段 好比说
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  persistent vegetative state.
  成了永久植物人
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  Now, imagine that we've got somebody
  现在 有一个人
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  who needs a heart transplant
  需要做心脏移植手术
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  or a kidney transplant, liver transplant.
  或者是肾脏移植 肝脏移植