你认为人世间的得失不过是朝生暮死的蜉蝣，早晨的阳光孕育了它，一阵晚风又把它一扫而光。

You hold all that it can give or take away was the midge that the sun-blink brings out, and the evening wind sweeps away.

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It's mortality that gives it that sense of ephemeral value, but it's also mortality that threatens to cancel it out altogether.

因为逃不过必死的结局所以给了美朝生暮死的价值，但必死性也可能带来全盘出局的威胁。

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