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He'd come close to death.

他曾与死神擦肩而过。

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The young man always wanted to give back, even when he was close to death.

这个年轻人即使接近死亡时，也总是想要回报社会。

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Close to 40 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the most popular figures in jazz.

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It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

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He's going to close it back down here with death and he's going to close it back down using a process that we frequently encounter in music, and that is this idea of dissonance resolving to consonance.

他要描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,他要用一种我们常在音乐中邂逅的方式,描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,这就是使不和谐音解构为和音,这个理念

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"He was very close to death", a long time friend and supporter told me.

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Mr Wolfson, now comatose and probably close to death, was given a kiss of life and recovered.

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Doctors had recently warned that many of the strikers were close to death.

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