Doctors have decided the only way he can live anything near a normal life is to give him an operation.

医生们已经确定了他能过任何接近正常生活的惟一方法是给他做个手术。

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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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In an area where low temperatures are limiting to life, the importance of the additional heat near the surface is crucial.

在这样低温限制了生存的区域，近地表的额外热量至关重要。

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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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Remember the letter ? that Plato wrote near the end of his life, when he compares the democracy to a golden age, at least in comparison to what went after.

记得柏拉图,在临死前所写的书信吗，当他把民主与黄金时期相比时，至少是与那之后的时期相比时。

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Sensors near Trent's cameras will show how hot the conditions are near multi-celled life forms to make sure they are found in extremely hot rather than jets of cooler water.

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Marley's oldest daughter, Cedella, told me that near the end of his life, when his dreadlocks had begun to fall out because of the cancer treatments, he would still summon the strength to play with his kids.

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Except, according to the show, near the end of her life.

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