来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第2集 第2集》

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  I take it the idea of the body is a familiar one.
  我想大家都已经了解了肉体
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  It's this lump of flesh and bone and muscle
  它是由一块块皮肤 骨骼和肌肉组成
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  that's sitting here in front of you and
  它正坐在你们的面前 并且
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  that each one of you sort of drags around with you.
  你们中的每一个人都被这些肉体所牵制
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  It's the sort of thing that we can put on a scale
  这是一种我们可以称重
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  and prod with a stick and the biologists can study,
  可被棍打 可被生物学家研究的东西
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  presumably made up of various kinds of molecules,
  想必是由不计其数的分子
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  atoms and so forth. So we've got the body.
  原子等构成 于是我们有了肉体
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  But on this first view,
  但是在第一个观点中
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  we also have something that's not body.
  仍然有不是肉体的部分
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  Something that's not a material object.
  一个不是由物质实体构成的东西
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  Something that's not composed of molecules and atoms.
  一个不是由分子原子构成的某物