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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Some people die without ever moving out of the denial stage, refusing to acknowledge death until it's upon them.

有些人还没有走出否认阶段就离开了人世，直到死亡降临到身上拒绝承认它。

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You reach a stage in your life where you start to think death is not the bad thing you are taught to think, where you get this feeling.

以前你被教育成认为死亡是件坏事，当你在生活中到达了一个阶段，你开始考虑死亡没有那么糟糕，这时你就有这种感觉了。

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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

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No prosecutions are being sought "at this stage" over the death of a teenager attacked by dogs in a Greater Manchester house, police have said.

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Angela Caputo, for example, killed herself in an unimaginable manner: no one who had read her poems, with their charged and ambivalently childlike atmosphere, could have predicted such an atrocious death, stage-managed down to the finest detail for maximum terrifying effect.

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