Now, at the start, I distinguished two claims people might have in mind when they say, "Nobody believes they're going to die."

一开始的时候，我已经区别了,两种当人们说“没人相信自己会死“时，他们脑中可能存在的想法“

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In a sense it is an image of the English countryside at a moment in which it is being emptied out, its young men sent to France to die, a kind of no man's land already.

某种意义上它是英国乡村的写照,在一个被清空的时刻，年轻的男人被送到法国受死，已经是没有人的土地。

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It's bad enough that I'm going to die too soon.

我死得太早已经够糟糕了。

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So, the barber is speaking about his son in such a way that he seems alive, but, in fact, he's dead. So here is one dead child playing baseball, or the memory of him playing baseball is alive with his father.

这个老理发师在用一种谈论,活人的口吻谈论他的儿子，但实际上他已经死了，那么，这里是一个打篮球的孩子的死，也许对他父亲而言，关于他打篮球的记忆将长存。

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It's bad enough that I'm going to die.

我死得太早已经够糟糕了。

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