Death is one of the great taboos in our culture.

在我们的文化中，“死亡”是一大忌。

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Not even a great health-care system can cure death—and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.

即使是一个伟大的医疗体系也无法治愈死亡，而我们未能直面这一现实，现在正威胁着我们的伟大。

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She said his death was a great loss to herself.

她说他的去世对于她来说是个巨大的损失。

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Miller's great play, "Death of a Salesman", opened on Broadway in nineteen forty-nine.

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And so, in addition to philosophical arguments for and against the existence and immortality of the soul, we end the dialogue with a quite moving death scene, one of the great death scenes, if we could call it that, of western civilization.

所以,支持和反对,灵魂的存在与不朽的论证,以一个感人至深的死亡场景告终,这简直就是西方文明史上,最伟大的死亡场景之一,如果我们可以这样说的话

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Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

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Florida's statute makes it clear that the justification is not available to a person who initially provokes the use of force against himself, unless such force is so great that the person reasonably believes that he is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that he has exhausted every reasonable means to escape.

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After noticing the death certificate of his great-great-great-grandmother had omitted a cause of death, he made inquiries which revealed she was killed by "injuries inflicted on the head by someone unknown".

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Sinn Fein president Adams greeted Kennedy's death with great sadness, according to the UK Press Asscociation.

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