reciting the text, emoting over it, enthusing about it, - and then looking around for something else to say-- it was no longer a question of doing that.

或者只是背诵篇子，装模作样地读一读，假装很感兴趣，然后没话找话的评论一番-,现在意义上的精读可不是这样的了。

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If,when we interpret the claim everyone dies alone, that just ends up being a slightly pretentious way of saying everyone dies, we might say,oh yeah,that is true and it is a necessary truth, but it's not especially surprising.

如果我们对每个人都孤独而死的诠释，只是装模作样地说明人终有一死，那我们会说，这是真理，也是必要的，但并没有什么好惊奇的。

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