or the owner could go through several coats, but still at some point, the owner is going to die as well.

或者主人可以穿坏好几件大衣，但是在某一刻，主人依然会去世。

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He wore an old double-breasted suit, frayed gray shirt, wide tie, no hat "I left her so long ago I don't remember.

他穿着一件双排扣的旧大衣，一件散口的灰衬衫，和一条宽领带，没有戴帽子，“我很早以前就离开了她。

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And it gives us an very nice analogy of somebody whose, you know, a coat which could outlast the owner, but it isn't immortal.

他给了我们一个很好的类比,某人的大衣可以,比它的主人存在更久，但它并不是不朽的。

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You can see that wonderful coat and silk bowtie.

你们看这漂亮大衣和丝质领结。

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Dean, ragged in a moth-eaten overcoat he bought specially for the freezing temperatures of the East, walked off alone and the last I saw of him he rounded the corner of Seventh Avenue, eyes on the street ahead and bent to it again.

狄恩穿着一件被虫蛀过的破大衣,这是他特意带来防备东部寒冷气候的，孤独地走了，我最后看到他徘徊在,7号大街的转角，眼望前方，然后转身消失了。

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I've got many coats in my life.

我生命中有很多大衣。

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