Tens of trillions of microbes call our living bodies home. But when we die?

数以万计的微生物把我们的活体当做家。但是，如果我们死了呢？

We experience the world and ourselves with, through and because of our living bodies.

我们通过并因为我们的生命体来体验世界和我们自己。

And at the deepest-lying, most basal levels, experiences of simply being a living body, of being alive.

在最深的、最基本的层面上，只是作为一个活生生的身体、活着的体验。

We experience the world around us and ourselves within it, with, through and because of our living bodies.

我们体验周围的世界以及身处其中的我们自己，与我们的生命体一起，通过我们的生命体，也因为我们的生命体。

" The presence of moisture in the air helps prevent too-rapid evaporation from living bodies, " his father said.

“空气中水分的存在有助于防止活体蒸发过快，”他的父亲说。

Less substantial than living bodies, but much more than ghosts, they moved toward him. And on each face, there was the same loving smile.

他们向他走过来--看起来比活人来得虚幻，却比鬼魂来得真实。每个人的脸上都带着同样的充满爱意的笑容。

I say only that the study of the behaviour of living bodies, in the present state of our knowledge, is distinct from physics.

我只是说，以我们目前的知识水平， 对活体行为的研究不同于物理学。

Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive and more aware of his own living body than ever before.

慢慢地，很慢很慢的，他坐了起来，这时他比以前任何时候都更真切地感觉到自己活着，更清楚地意识到自己有生命的躯体。

There is no cogent empirical reason for supposing that the laws determining the motions of living bodies are exactly the same as those that apply to dead matter.

没有令人信服的经验理由可以假设决定活体运动的定律与适用于死物质的定律完全相同。

In like manner, as a question of methodology, the laws of living bodies are to be studied, in the first place, without any undue haste to subordinate them to the laws of physics.

以同样的方式， 作为一个方法论问题， 首先要研究活体的规律， 不要过分仓促地使它们服从物理规律。

As remarkable as these near-death experiences sounded, they were consistent enough that some scientists began to believe there was truth to them: maybe people really did have minds or souls that existed separately from their living bodies.

这些濒死体验听起来令人惊叹，而且它们足够一致，以至于一些科学家开始相信其中有真相：也许人们真的有独立于他们身体而存在的思想或灵魂。