We've thought about the value of life in isolation; we've been, in effect, thinking about the value of death in isolation.

我们单独考虑过生的价值;,我们，实际上，一直在单独考虑死的价值。

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The poet of a pastoral elegy usually represents himself as a shepherd, a shepherd mourning the death of a fellow shepherd, and he often explains that the death of his shepherd friend is exerting a magical effect on the entire natural world.

田园挽歌诗人通常把自己写成一个牧羊人，哀悼自己的同伴的逝去，这个牧羊人常常描绘自己同伴的死,使整个自然界为之动容。

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