I did not want to become sicker, because then surely I would be at death door.

我不想成为一个住院病人，因为这意味着我离死亡之门不远了。

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Death, thy servant, is at my door. He has crossed the unknown sea and brought thy call to my home.

死亡，你的仆人，来到我的门前。他渡过不可知的海洋临到我家，来传达你的召令。

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All too often we imagine that life seems to end at the nursing home door - that it is loveless and lonely, with death hovering close by.

我们常常把疗养院的大门想象成生命的终点——没有爱，只有孤独，已经徘徊而来的死亡。

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The poem never questions that, and it's ridiculous to lay his death at the church's door.

这是诗从未对此质疑过，并且把他的死归罪于教会也是十分荒唐的。

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That's why I've tried to say if there are souls, at least that opens the door to the possibility that we will survive our death.

这就是我一直在说的,如果灵魂存在,至少这为我们在死后继续活着,创造了可能性

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