来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡第9集第9集》

It can't be that

灵魂不可能
the soul was destroyed.

被毁灭
It's very easy to confuse

很容易把这两种对不死的
these two interpretations of deathless, A and B.

解释混淆我们暂且把它们叫做A和B
And basically, this is what I think is going on with Plato.

从根本上来说我觉得这要怪柏拉图
He's running back and forth between these two interpretations.

他自己就在这两种解释之间徘徊
If life is an essential property of the soul,

如果生命是灵魂的基本属性
then that means we will never have, as it were,

就意味着我们永远不会找到
a soul in our hand that exists and is dead.

一个存在的死亡的灵魂
Just in the same way that

就如同
you'll never have a piece of fire in your hand,

你永远找不到
as it were, that exists and is cold.

存在的冷火