休閑英語對話：關(guān)于生與死，哪一個需要更大的勇氣的情景會話

　　Bob: Hi, Tom. Do you know that the suicide rate in Japan keeps ranking high among the world’s leading countries?

　　嗨，湯姆。你知道日本的自殺率一直居高不下嗎?

　　Tom: Yeah, I have heard of it.

　　嗯，聽說過了。

　　Bob: Why do so many Japanese commit suicide?

　　為什么會有這么多人自殺呢?

　　Tom: I think it must be the tremendous stress of society. What’s more, Japan is a small-size country with a large population and this increases the pressure on them.

　　我想可能是巨大的社會壓力。再加上日本國土面積小人口多，這加重了他們的壓力。

　　Bob: Do you think being alive is an easy thing?

　　你覺得活著是一件簡單的事嗎?

　　Tom: Actually, I don’t think so. Nowadays, it becomes more and more difficult to live well without great efforts.

　　事實上，我并不這么認(rèn)為。現(xiàn)在，如果沒有好好努力是沒法過好日子的。

　　Bob: But I think choosing death really needs great courage.

　　但我覺得選擇死亡真的需要很大的勇氣

　　Tom: Really, I think being alive needs more courage. You know, we have to suffer a lot physically and psychologically when we are alive. But we end our sufferings when we die.

　　是嗎?我覺得活著需要更大的勇氣。你知道的，活著時總是要經(jīng)受身體上和精神上的折磨。但是死了以后，一切痛苦也就結(jié)束了。

　　Bob: It sounds reasonable. But we all don’t know what the world would be like after we die. Maybe it’s a world more miserable than this world.

　　聽起來挺有道理的。但是我們都不知道死后的世界是怎么樣，也許那是個比這個世界更慘的世界呢。

　　Tom: Yeah, it seems that it is a perennial question.

　　看來這是個永恒的問題了。