That really wasn't meant to be hard, but what's relevant about this exercise is not the fact that it's hard.

这应该并不难,与此相关的东西,事实上并不难

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So perhaps that's what the claim is meant to be when people say,everybody dies alone.

所以也许人都是孤独而死这个说法。

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Now I would like to read to you from the footnote to Howl, Allen Ginsberg's famous poem, that for many people embodied at the time what it meant to be engaged in this new literary project.

现在我再给你们读一段《嚎叫》的脚注，这是艾伦金斯堡的著名诗歌，对于很多当时的人来说,参与这项新文学事业意义深远。

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