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

　　嗨，汤姆。你知道日本的自杀率一直居高不下吗?

　　Tom: Yeah, I have heard of it.

　　嗯，听说过了。

　　Bob: Why do so many Japanese commit suicide?

　　为什么会有这么多人自杀呢?

　　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会压力。再加上日本国土面积小人口多，这加重了他们的压力。

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

　　你觉得活着是一件简单的事吗?

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

　　事实上，我并不这么认为。现在，如果没有好好努力是没法过好日子的。

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

　　但我觉得选择死亡真的需要很大的勇气

　　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.

　　是吗?我觉得活着需要更大的勇气。你知道的，活着时总是要经受身体上和精神上的折磨。但是死了以后，一切痛苦也就结束了。

　　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.

　　听起来挺有道理的。但是我们都不知道死后的世界是怎么样，也许那是个比这个世界更惨的世界呢。

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

　　看来这是个永恒的问题了。