It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.

这是人生旅途的中间阶段，在这个阶段，人们感觉到青春的消逝，前景的逐渐狭窄，死亡的逼近。

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The Stranger: That cold ain"t the weather, that"s death approaching.

陌生人：这种彻骨的寒冷不是因为天气，而是死神正在慢慢靠近。

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The Stranger: that cold ain't the weather, that's death approaching.

陌生人：这种彻骨的寒冷不是因为天气，而是死神正在慢慢靠近。

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Although death and destruction flood the foreground, the Comfort can be seen approaching on the horizon.

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Filming their reunion in a pair of stupendous, deeply moving long takes (one running nearly ten minutes), Dreyer sublimates their pleasure and pain in the eternal anguish of time passing and death approaching.

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Four hundred years ago, a fabulously wealthy arms dealer and moneylender named Thomas Sutton was approaching death.

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