Much like death and taxes, downtime is a certainty.

与死亡和税收一样，停机是不可能完全避免的。

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Uncertainty, like death and taxes, is an unavoidable part of life, however.

但就像死亡和纳税一样，不确定性也是生命中不可避免的部分。

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Four is an unlucky number here, Peter.Four sounds like death in Chinese.Hotels often have no fourth floor.

“四”是不吉利的数字，Peter . “四”在中文听起来像“死” .这里的饭店常常没有四楼。

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One friend said: "Margaret Mead was not going to let a little thing like death stop her."

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They are people that you--the community--trusts, that people are willing to let into their home and discuss things like death; that was an innovation that came in then.

他们在社区中享有威望,人们希望他们进入自己家中,并愿意与之讨论一些不快的话题,如死亡,这个创新从那以后就流行了起来

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So it's called Art Macabre. So it's all kind of like quite dark and like death-themed events,

它被称作艺术群魔。所以它画的都是一些类似黑暗、死亡主题的事物，

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Researchers at the Grief Recovery Institute, a nonprofit foundation, measured how situations like death and divorce affect U.S. businesses.

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Studies have shown that students who come from poorer communities like Death Valley have a lot to gain from attending a small school.

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The artist, who won the Turner in 2003 for a series of vases depicting subjects like death and child abuse, said the prize was "very relevant still".

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