来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第23集 第23集》

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  Here's a Woody Allen joke.
  是伍迪·艾伦说的
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  "I don't want to be immortal through my work;
  我不想通过我的作品活着
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  I want to be immortal through not dying."
  我想通过不死活着
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  Well, as you know,
  那么 如你们所知
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  previously I've argued that genuine immortality,
  前面我论证过真正的永生
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  unending life, would not be a good thing.
  没完没了的生命 不是件好事
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  But still, many of us aspire to
  但是 很多人仍然期望
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  this kind of semi-immortality.
  这种准永生
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  And actually, it can take,
  实际上 我认为
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  I think again, two broad forms.
  这也可以分成两种粗略的形式
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  Sometimes people want to say there's a sense in which,
  有时人们会说
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  although it's not as though you're literally living on,
  尽管你不是真的活了下来