Their lives had been salted by the taste of death.

死亡的滋味使生活变得痛楚。

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My tongue has already tasted the taste of death, but my writing is optimistic.

我的舌头已经尝到了死的滋味，但我的创作还是乐观的。

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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

懦夫在死前先死了很多次，但勇敢的人只尝过一次死亡。

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To sort of give you a quick taste, if after my death I won't exist, how could anything be bad for me?

让你们先来体会一下，如果在我死后，我不存在了，对我来说怎么会有坏事情？

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To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

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"I'm eagerly awaiting the taste of death, " he said.

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The valiant never taste of death but once.

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He was just a gaunt man, standing in the snow, wearing sneakers with no socks--peering out from that transplanted bit of North Korea into a world where asking for even a taste of his rightful human portion of liberty could bring him torture and death.

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