休閑英語(yǔ)對(duì)話：關(guān)于生與死，哪一個(gè)需要更大的勇氣的情景會(huì)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(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)了。

　　Bob: Why do so many Japanese commit suicide?

　　為什么會(huì)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(huì)壓力。再加上日本國(guó)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(jué)得活著是一件簡(jiǎn)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(shí)上，我并不這么認(rèn)為。現(xiàn)在，如果沒(méi)有好好努力是沒(méi)法過(guò)好日子的。

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

　　但我覺(jué)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(jué)得活著需要更大的勇氣。你知道的，活著時(shí)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(tīng)起來(lái)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(gè)比這個(gè)世界更慘的世界呢。

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

　　看來(lái)這是個(gè)永恒的問(wèn)題了。