He himself believed in freedom, so much so that he would rather die than live without it.

他本人如此信奉自由，以至于宁死也不愿没有自由地活着。

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The professor would not die, because he himself would become the professor, and he would live.

教授不会死，因为厨师会让自己成为教授，他会生存下去。

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He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

6：7他的父母或是弟兄姊妹死了的时候，他不可因他们使自己不洁净，因为那离俗归神的凭据是在他头上。

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After his last sight of the pathetically stricken Brahms, stooped and fumbling with sausages over the stove, Mahler curiously burst out to a friend that he himself wanted to die at the height of his powers, before his works became weaker.

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