Time is so unkind, and life is so cruel without you here beside me.

时间是那么的无情，没有你，生活是那么的冷酷。

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What Zhang Ailing demonstrates is the all living creatures' actual life status, including her, whose original shame is able to be more demonstrated in the cruel condition of war and so on.

张爱玲展示的是包括她自己在内的芸芸众生在生活中的真实人生形态，这种本原形态在战争等残酷的条件下更能充分地展现。

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So, while I'm home babbling about how meaningless life is and how cruel and brutal and without any purpose, if there's a fire in my house, I'll go to extreme measures to save my life.

因此，当我一边在家中喋喋不休生命多么的没有意义、多么的悲惨和残酷、没有任何的目的，可是如果我的房子着了火，我会尽一切手段保住我的性命。

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