As I’ve said many times before French as a language is largely an evolution of Latin and so we can look back to the Latin words funus and funer meaning “death rites.”

我之前已经说过很多次，法语主要由拉丁语演变而来，因此我们能更向前考察，拉丁语的funus以及funer的意思是“死亡仪式”。

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As it seemed there were no prayers or liturgies specifically for the death of pets, he wrote the book Animal Rites.

似乎对动物的死亡没有任何专门的祷告或仪式。

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Their work changed the way war was perceived, for it showed in uncompromising detail the horrors of death in war and the unceremonious expediencies of battlefield last rites.

他们的工作改变了感知战争的方式，因为它不折不扣地记录了战争死亡的恐怖和战场阵亡者死前的状态。

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"I fully respect that many Hindu-origin people will prefer the speed and convenience of crematoria but for practicing Hindus like me, receiving last rites is quite literally a matter of life and death, " he said.

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