The death of his wife broke him completely.

妻子的死使他悲痛欲绝。

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Ken began to lament the death of his only son.

肯为他独生子的去世开始感到悲痛。

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The inescapable conclusion is that he was trying to avenge the death of his friend.

不可避免的结论就是他试图为他的朋友之死复仇。

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Could it even make sense for a person to survive the death of his body.

甚至一个人肉体不死,是不是有意义的呢。

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The poet of a pastoral elegy usually represents himself as a shepherd, a shepherd mourning the death of a fellow shepherd, and he often explains that the death of his shepherd friend is exerting a magical effect on the entire natural world.

田园挽歌诗人通常把自己写成一个牧羊人，哀悼自己的同伴的逝去，这个牧羊人常常描绘自己同伴的死,使整个自然界为之动容。

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It ended with his death as a hero, while avenging the death of his family.

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