But at the end of life when your body is wearing out and you're having and can only have a life that is, in your view, pretty terrible, no life at all can really seem to be better.

但在生命即将结束时，你已极度虚弱，而且你觉得自己只能过那种相当可怕的生活。这时会觉得没有生命似乎会更好。

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However, through five years contest, terrible crimes not only have made no concession in front of the scathing counter-terrorism measures, but also play more strong power.

然而，经过五年多的较量，恐怖犯罪不仅没有在严厉的反恐措施面前退让，反而有愈演愈烈之势。

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There are no party-goers. What a terrible waste for the host to prepare the finest of places and the best of times and yet to have no one show up !

主人家预备了最好的地方，选择了最适当的时间，但竟然一个来宾也没有，岂不是白费了他的一片苦心！

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This is the nostalgia or regret of the ethnographer who says, "Now as a result of this terrible Eurocentrism, as a result of the terrible ethnocentrism of the Europeans studying these things, we no longer have a savage mind."

这是人种志学者的怀旧或者遗憾，他说，现在，由于有可怕的欧洲中心主义，由于,研究这些问题的欧洲人有着可怕的种族优越感，我们不再有野性的思维“

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