This was a danger sign, but short lived and again I would be hurtled down into the abyss, feeling like I must end this life as I had come to know it.

这是个危险的信号，但仅仅是暂时的，不久我便俯冲进深渊了，感觉起来我必须终结此生，就如我已然知道的。

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"Since I retired to this place," he wrote near the end of his life, "I have never been out of these mountains."

“自从退休到这里，”他在快到生命尽头时写到，“我从没出过这些山。”

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Huge earthquake just now in Chile!... I swear I thought this was the end of my life!

刚刚智利发生了特大地震！我发誓当时我认为这是我的生命尽头。

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"His extraordinary life on this earth has come to an end," "The extraordinary good that he did lives on."

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And as if this were not enough, near the very end of his life, he returned to his classical studies translating all of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

这好像还不够，在他晚年的时候，他又回到了对经典的研究,翻译了荷马的《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》

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I want to end this premise idea by talking a little bit about a person for whom, one of the chief purpose in life was to spread happiness-- Mahatma Gandhi. This is a story about him.

我想以介绍一位,一生致力于，传播快乐的人来结论这个前提-,圣雄甘地，这是关于他的一个故事。

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For those of us who believe in the importance of palliative care at the end of life, this is all good.

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We must work together to raise awareness, increase access to services, improve preventive care, and end the silence surrounding this life-threatening illness so at-risk and infected individuals can receive the assistance they need.

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So, the conundrum of life is this: although in the end a life may mean nothing to the actors in it, yet it is as real to relish the beauty of each passing moment of it.

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