It's mortality that gives it that sense of ephemeral value, but it's also mortality that threatens to cancel it out altogether.

因为逃不过必死的结局所以给了美朝生暮死的价值，但必死性也可能带来全盘出局的威胁。

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He also plainly shares with Gadamer the assumption, the supposition, that the construal of meaning cannot be altogether objective.

他同时也坦率地表示自己和葛达玛，有一样的设想，那就是意思的解读并不都是客观的。

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