来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第17集 第17集》

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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
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  wishing they were born,
  希望能够托生
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  maybe you should feel sorry for them.
  你也许会为他们感到难过
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  But that's not what the story is
  但在我所构建的
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  at all on the physicalist picture that I'm assuming.
  物理主义者的世界中 这根本不可能
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  Nonexistent people don't have a kind of spooky,
  那些不存在的人 不是幽灵一般
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  wish-I-were-alive ghost-like existence.
  渴望托生 以鬼魂的状态存在着
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  They just don't exist, full stop.
  他们并不存在 就是这样
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  So once we keep that in mind about Larry,
  所以我们一想到拉里其实并不存在
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  it's very hard to feel sorry for him.
  就不会为他难过了
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  Of course, look,
  当然
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  since I've been going on about how
  既然我讲到