每天一小段英语（92）

命运号角

1)

I love life.

Readers have picked up on my

mild

obsession

with death, which might have something to do with the 55 times I’ve talked about it on this blog. But when they bring it up with me, they refer to it as my fear of death. Which isn’t quite how I feel. It’s more that I really like life. I like doing things and thinking things and I like my family and friends and want to keep hanging out with them if I can. I also really want to see what happens. I want to be there when we figure out the

Fermi Paradox

and when we discover what dark matter is and when we terraform Mars and when AI takes all our jobs and then extincts all of us. I want to see what the 23rd century is like and see how cool the phones are by then. Being alive is a lot more interesting than being dead. And since I have all of

eternity

to be dead, it seems logical to stay not dead for at least a while when I have the chance.

我热爱生命。经过读了这篇文章的

55个DEATH，读者发现了我对死亡存在轻微的困扰。但是当他们对我提起死亡以为我会害怕的时候，其实我没怎么害怕，我很喜欢生命，我爱思考爱行动爱家人朋友，想和他们逛街。我爱看万物变化，希望知道费米悖论的解谜，想知道暗物质是什么，什么时候移居火星，什么时候人工智能能为我们工作然后灭绝我们。我想知道23世纪是什么样的，那时候的手机多先进。活着比死去有意思。既然永生比不死好，那么只要有机会就多活一会是一会。

2)

This chart.

这张表。

3)

Hope.

I’ve always been jealous of religious people, because on their

deathbed

, instead of thinking, “Shit,” they’re thinking, “Okay here’s the big moment—am I about to blink and wake up in heaven??” Much more fun. And much more exciting. Whether cryonics pans out or not, as I age, at least a little part of me can now be thinking, “I wonder what’s gonna happen when I die?”

Atheists

aren’t supposed to get to think that. Humans don’t need a huge amount of hope to feel hopeful—they just need something to

cling onto

. Just enough to be able to have the “So you’re sayin there’s a chance!” feeling.

希望。我总是对宗教人士有所戒备，因为他们临终时想的不是“操蛋”，而是“现在是个伟大的时刻，我会不会去天堂了？”有趣吧。更多的是刺激。不管人体冷冻法会不会成功，至少我有时候会想“我死的时候会发生什么？”无神论者不会这样想。人类不需要很多希望来感觉未来满怀希望，他们只需要追求一些东西，一种“你说有机会那就去追求”的感觉。

命运号角

deathbed
n. 临终之时；临死所卧之床
adj. 临终时作的

命运号角

cling onto
紧紧抓住
死抱住不放

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