It's mortality that gives it that sense of ephemeral value, but it's also mortality that threatens to cancel it out altogether.

因为逃不过必死的结局所以给了美朝生暮死的价值，但必死性也可能带来全盘出局的威胁。

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When people have these near brushes with death, it's easy to believe that the fact of their mortality is more vivid.

当人们拥有这种濒死体验，很容易相信他们对必死的感受会更深刻。

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He would die but he would spare the five.

他必死无疑，但可以救那五人的性命。

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re so hated in many parts of the world that any policy initiative with our name on it is dead on arrival.

世界上有很多人憎恨我们，We’,任何起草的政策，只要有我们的名字在上面,都必死无疑。

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Tolstoy draws a highly realistic and believable portrait of somebody who is surprised to discover that he's mortal.

托尔斯泰刻画了一个高度真实可信的,一个对自己的必死感到惊讶的人的形象。

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But does he thoroughly and truly and fundamentally believe he's mortal?

但他确实彻底真正地,相信自己必死吗？

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