In her last months of life, Mom told me she was writing something about cancer that she thought could help other people who were sick feel less alone.

在母亲生命的最后几个月中，她曾告诉我她正在写关于癌症的一些东西，她希望以此帮助其他病人，让他们觉得没那么孤独。

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Here was an English writer, desperately sick, grappling alone with the demons of his imagination in a bleak Scottish outpost in the desolate aftermath of the second world war.

二战硝烟未了，这位英语作家，孤身一人，前往苏格兰荒凉边区，不顾身体虚弱，在病魔的爪下绞尽创造力。

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And now her brother is alone with her sick father in a hospital room in Boston. Why did she ever leave her father and her brother? Why did she ever leave Boston? And what was she coming home to?

现在她生病的父亲和她弟弟单独在波士顿的医院病房里。究竟为什么她要离开父亲和弟弟？究竟为什么她要离开波士顿？又是什么让她回家来？

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What if you're talking about a group of people that don't have any cows in their vicinity, let alone a sick cow?

万一你遇到一群人,他们附近连头奶牛都没有,更不用说受病毒感染的奶牛

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Even though 28% of the senior citizens live alone (compared with the national average of 17.6%), it is almost unheard of for anyone to be left alone sick - or, worse, to die for lack of attention.

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Gordon Brown alone is responsible for the total undermining of our pensions and most of us are worried sick.

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