I dare not quit my post, though an unfaithful sentinel, whose sure reward is death and dishonour, when his dreary watch shall come to an end!
虽说我是个不忠于职守的哨兵,等到这种沉网的守望终了的时候,我所能得到的报酬只能是不光彩的死亡,但我仍不敢擅离岗位!
Birth is a kind of discontinuity between the prenatal and post-natal clinics, while death just takes somebody out of the community, possibly to the tune of prerecorded hymns at the funeral parlor.
出生是出生前和出生后之间的一种间断,而死亡只是使某人脱离社会团体,送到播着预先录制好圣歌的殡仪。
I am reminded of how in one of my second brother's letters he was complaining in somewhat sanscritised phraseology of being worked to death tied by the neck to his post of duty.
我记起在我二哥的某封信里,他用某种梵语的措辞向父亲抱怨说他忙得焦头烂额,连脖子都快要被工作套住了。
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