It's a story about his family before he left and sort of how he had a very happy, joyful life with his family.

这是一个关于他离开前的家庭的故事，讲述了他是如何和他的家人过着幸福快乐的生活。

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What if later in life they come to a metaphorical door, like an opportunity of some sort, and instead of opening the door and taking the opportunity, they just stare at it and wonder, "What if it isn't a door?"

要是他们将来在生活中遇到一扇隐喻的门，比如某个机会的到来，会怎么样呢？他们是不是不会打开门并抓住机会，而是凝视着它，想知道“假如它不是一扇门，将会怎么样？”

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Lately I've found myself doing a new sort of math on the cost of owning a home and whether my financial and life priorities are adding up.

最近，我发现自己在做新的数学题，主要是在衡量拥有一间房子的成本以及我的财务、生活重点是否合理。

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One sort of opens up the beginning of life here and the other closes it down through a referencing of death.

前者讲的是生命的开始,后者通过诠释死亡,讲述了生命的终结

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Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.

甚至在以色列人安定以后,依旧认为，那种游牧式的生活，是非常浪漫的。

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I think that just it's a story that about his family before he left and sort of how he had a very happy, joyful life with his family.

我认为这个故事记录了,他离开日本前得家庭,以及他和家人的，快乐生活。

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And so it's just basically--"Eli The Barrow Boy, " the song, is just kind of a--it's just a tragedy of a very sort of sweet character, who just never really gets a break in life, I guess.

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