When children start school for the very first time, parents often feel a sense of excitement coupled with a touch of sadness at the end of an era.

当孩子们第一次上学的时候，父母们常常会感到兴奋和些许悲伤，因为这是一个成长阶段的结束。

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Without an end to things there would no longer be any sense of meaning or beauty in the world.

若事情没有个头，这世界将不存在任何意义和美好。

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by a growing sense of alienation from the state; and by the unease of anticipation as the end of an era inevitably looms ever closer.

对国家的疏离感越来越严重，并作为一个时代结束的不安预期日益迫近。

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An end-stopped line is one in which the grammatical unit of sense stops precisely at the end of the line. The next line of verse picks up a different thought and the next one after that, and so on.

孤联诗句到了句尾语法和句意,都刚好停止，下一句,又表达一个新的意思，下一句又是，依次类推。

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As I approached the end of Day 3, and the end of my journey, I felt an overwhelming sense of accomplishment and pride.

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There my own Golden Age of Science Fiction came, in some sense, to an end, the othernesses of my adolescence joining up with the wider tributary of literature, the mother of all otherness.

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That is a valid worry, but what strikes me is that people love to worry about when the good thing (in a limited sense admittedly) comes to an end without being appreciative of the good thing while it lasts.

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