也许像其他青铜时代的物品一样，它在生命结束时被“仪式性地杀死”了。

Perhaps it had been "ritually killed" at the end of its life, like other Bronze-Age objects.

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对郑和杨的孩子有所安慰的是，他们得知当飞机撞上五角大楼的时候，他们的父母在生命结束时手拉着手。

For Zheng and Yang's children what provides a measure of comfort is knowing that their parents' lives ended hand in hand when that plane hit the Pentagon.

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但是在青春期结束，大脑关闭一半的能力，仅仅保留了那些大约在生命最开始的十几年时间里似乎是最为宝贵的思维方式。

At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

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