Death is one of the great taboos in our culture.

在我们的文化中，“死亡”是一大忌。

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Not even a great health-care system can cure death—and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.

即使是一个伟大的医疗体系也无法治愈死亡，而我们未能直面这一现实，现在正威胁着我们的伟大。

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Miller's great play, "Death of a Salesman", opened on Broadway in nineteen forty-nine.

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Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

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That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

有些读者认为,对基督的信仰是关乎生死的大事,这对于那些对基督教,不以为然的人是一个障碍。

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Florida's statute makes it clear that the justification is not available to a person who initially provokes the use of force against himself, unless such force is so great that the person reasonably believes that he is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that he has exhausted every reasonable means to escape.

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After noticing the death certificate of his great-great-great-grandmother had omitted a cause of death, he made inquiries which revealed she was killed by "injuries inflicted on the head by someone unknown".

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Sinn Fein president Adams greeted Kennedy's death with great sadness, according to the UK Press Asscociation.

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