I am like the uprooted duckweed playing my life in the mortal life pool.

我如无根的浮萍，在尘世的方塘里游戏着人生。

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Light reveals the subtle alteration of things, the sly or calamitous impermanence or mortal life.

事物的细微变动，人生的狡猾，倏忽无常，一一都在光中显露出来。

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She knows that to stay with Edward means she must give up her mortal life and become a vampire too.

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Hobbes refers to the sovereign as a mortal god, as his answer to the problems of the state of nature, the state, the condition of life being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

君主就是生在凡间的神，霍布斯在回答,什么是国家的本质时这样比喻到，他的国家，他的生命都总是孤独，穷苦，下流，野蛮和短暂的。

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There's a short story by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, where the basic point of the story is that of all the life forms in the universe, we, here on Earth, are the only ones that are mortal.

科幻作家Orson，Scott，Card写了一个短故事，该故事的主旨是,在宇宙的所有生命形式中，我们，在地球上是唯一终有一死的生命。

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It is only by participating in this divine life that mortal, fragile human beings fulfil their potential.

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And when we are about to shuffle off this mortal coil, we want to be able to say what we did in life made a difference.

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For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

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