If you're wondering why I used Latin phrases that sound like spells out of Harry Potter, it's because I wanted to, as much as I could, connect the practices to their linguistic roots and to another ancient practice: memento mori.

如果你想知道我为什么使用听起像《哈利波特》里的咒语的拉丁短语，那是因为我想尽可能多地，将些做法与它们的语言根源和另一古老的做法联系起：勿忘你终有一死。

I won't waste your time in this video explaining what memento mori is, but you can look it up in your free time if you're curious.

视频中，我不浪费你们的解释什么是 memento mori，但是如果你们好奇的话，可以空闲去查一下。

Why should we have this memento mori every day?

为什么我们每天都要有种“死亡提醒”呢？

It's a memento mori ring, which is basically, remember, one day you're going to die.

是一枚“死亡象征”戒指，其寓意是：记住，总有一天你死去。

Ash Wednesday is a memento mori to remind you of death.

圣灰星期三是提醒人们死亡的警钟。

You know, there's the stoic idea of, they would call it memento mori, to remember all the time that we could die tomorrow, we don't know what's going to happen.

你知道，有一种坚忍的想法， 他们称之为memento mori，一直记住我们明天可能死， 我们不知道发生什么。

' Another Latin expression that was widely quoted was 'memento mori, ' which means 'Remember that you must die.

另一被广泛引用的拉丁语表达是“memento mori”，意思是“记住你必须死”。

There's, I think, a real strong memento mori theme in there that I've always been struck by.

我认为其中蕴含着非常强烈的“向死而生”主题，一直让我深感触动。

I think when you think about memento mori, it's not that you will die tomorrow, right?

我认为当你想到“记住你是必死的”，并不意味着你明天死去，对吧？

So when people hear this idea, like the Stokes talk about memento mori, right?

因此，当人们听到概念，比如斯多卡学派谈论的“记住你是必死的”，对吧？

That's not what memento mori is supposed to make you feel.

那不是“记住你是必死的”应该让你产生的感觉。

But the practice of memento mori is supposed to announce the presence, right?

但“记住你是必死的”一实践是为了提醒我们一点，对吧？