Socrates says he will be drowned in laughter but many other people have taken this dream or this aspiration very seriously.

苏格拉底说自己会被笑死,但更多人很严肃地,看待这个梦想或志向。

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It reminds me of a joke about the statistician who drowned in a pool with an average height of 10 inches.

这让我想起一个统计学笑话,在一个平均水深为10英寸的游泳池里，谁会被淹死。

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According to these prose accounts now Pharaoh's army was literally drowned in water.

通过这段白话诗的描述,我们知道，现在法老的军队确实被淹没在水中。

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He says he expects to be drowned in laughter.

他表示已料想到会被笑死。

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Here, a neighbor father, crazed with grief at the death of his son, has drowned himself, killed himself, and the moon implies in its gaze that the poet should do so, too.

这里，一个邻居父亲，因儿子之死悲痛发狂，溺死自己，杀死自己，月亮在凝视中隐含,诗人也应该这么做。

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