这位追悔莫及的技术员后来交待，他的两个亲人被癌症夺走了生命。他向我们俩表达了歉意。

The contrite tech then confessed that two of his close relatives had died from cancer and apologized to both of us.

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这场暴风雨夺走了50人的生命。

The storms took the lives of 50 people.

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昨天内战夺走了一位联合国译员的生命。

The civil war claimed the life of a U.N. interpreter yesterday.

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This all came hard and at the cost, I'm sure, of a lot of human life and a lot of misery.

一切都变得艰难了,我确定,这夺走了很多人的生命,造成了很多痛苦

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Ultimately, it takes the life of the worker.

最终它夺走了劳动者的生命。

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And we might think, look, this is one of the negative things about the human condition that we get a taste of life-- nothing more--before it's snatched away.

我们可能会想，瞧，这是关于人类处境的一个负面的内容,我们尝到了生命的滋味-,仅此而已，在它被夺走前。

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