I was with some friends of my mother long ago, and I remember looking at that and just thinking.

我是和我母亲以前的朋友们一起,我记得自己看着它沉思

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So I'm actually writing my own fiction, and no, it's not easy. But you can actually learn from, if you read other writers.

我现在也正在写自己的小说，真的不容易。但是你可以从你以前阅读的作品中学到很多。

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This is the claim--not that nobody believes they're going to die; that's the one we've been talking about for the last lecture or so--but instead, the claim that everybody dies alone.

这论点是这样的，不同于我们以前所讲的;,没有人相信自己会死亡，而是说每个人都是孤独而死的。

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We're not asking you to change anything; in fact it's best for this particular exercise to eat as you typically would so you can get a sense of what an average day would be like for you.

我们不是要求你去改变什么,事实上,对于这个作业来说,保持以前的饮食习惯是最好的,以便了解自己平时的饮食

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