And perhaps the explanation has got to be the ubiquity of death is this kind of background, constant hum.

也许应该这么解释，死亡的无处不在,是一种背景的，持续的嗡嗡声。

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just in a sense that when she was taking, say, I don't know, class like C.C., which is Contemporary Civilization, or Lit. Hum.,

就好像她在上论当代文明，或人类文学这样的课程时，我不太清楚，

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