回到十三世纪早期，placebo指的是一种代表故去之人反复朗诵的特殊祷告。

That was back in the early 1200s and at that time placebo was the name of a specific prayer to be recited on behalf of the dead.

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小姑娘想。因为她的老祖母一个已故去的唯一疼爱她的人，曾经告诉过她，一旦天上落下一颗星，就有一个灵魂回到上帝那里去了。

"Some one is dying," thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

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