"I thought that the American medical system was going to take away my life savings and essentially ruin any prospects I had for a pleasant retirement after the operation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

It seems to me rather a long distance from the thought, nobody can die for me,nobody can take my part, to the claim,everybody dies alone.

对我来说，没有人能够代替他人死亡，这说法离每个人都是孤独而死这说法，还有好一段距离。

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Or, if you take England,for example, people came to care in very major ways what people in Manchester thought because Manchester becomes the capital essentially of the north and the economic center of production.

或者,拿英格兰举例,曼彻斯特人的意志具有很大影响力,因为那里对于北部的重要性堪比首都,并且是工业经济中心

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