The riddle of "modern death" is a serious issue for the science of life.

“现代死亡”之谜是生命科学的沉重话题。

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Unlike Gul'dan's death knights, modern death knights consist mainly of paladins who lost their faith and pledged their souls to the Lich King in exchange for the promise of immortality.

不同于古尔丹的死亡骑士，现在的死亡骑士大多数由那些堕落的圣骑士而组成。他们早已抛弃了信仰以及自己的灵魂，作为交换条件巫妖王向他们许诺了赋予他们力量以及不朽的身躯。

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Before her husband's death she had installed herself in a modern villa.

在丈夫去世之前她就已经在一所现代的别墅里安顿了下来。

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Even in modern times, you can find people in apartments laying there for ten years after death and been mummified because of a specific airflow and temperature which supported the mummification procedure."

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Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

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Filming at an Olympian remove from ordinary life, Straub and Huillet judge it severely and reach profound, disturbing conclusions: in an unwillingness to face death, modern mankind rejects the gods and despoils the divine realm of nature.

NEWYORKER: These Encounters of Theirs

Christopher Owens, one of the co-leaders of the operation, was a talented songwriter and a made-to-order rock star: he had been raised in the Children of God cult, whose refusal to accept modern medicine contributed to the death of his brother, and he had spent his teens struggling with drug addiction.

NEWYORKER: Love and Its Discontents

This was the first conclave in modern times not to be preceded by the death of a pope.

WSJ: Daniel Johnson: A New Pope on a Pilgrim's Path