来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第17集 第17集》

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  that we not slip back into some version of the soul view,
  我们不求助于灵魂理论
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  especially some version of the soul view
  尤其是一些灵魂理论中
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  where the souls are prior existents.
  认为灵魂先行存在
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  You might imagine--there's a scene in Homer, I think,
  你也许会想象 好像荷马也这么写过
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  where some sort of sacrifice is being made
  祭祀过后
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  and all the dead souls go hover around,
  死者的灵魂仍在翱翔
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  longing to be alive again,
  期待再次托生
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  to savor the food and taste and smells of life, right?
  再次体会生命的气息 对吧
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  If you've got this picture of the nonexistent,
  如果你这样想象那些不存在的人
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  merely potentially possible
  只有潜在可能性的
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  but never-to-be born individuals as
  却从没出生的人
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  somehow really already existing in a kind of ghost-like state,
  以类似鬼魂的状态存在着