Gone is the old way of machines; come is the reborn nature of machines, a nature more alive than dead.

逝去的是旧的机器之道，到来的是重生的机器之本性，一种比逝去的更有活力的本性。

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When the news of Petya's death reached her, she was a fresh-looking, vigorous woman of fifty; a month later she came out of her room an old woman, half dead and with no more interest in life.

自从获悉彼佳死讯，过了一个月，她才从屋里走出来，她原本是一个精神饱满、热爱生活的才刚刚五十岁的女人，这时却变成了一个半死不活，对生活没有兴趣的老太婆了。

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In my own way I have more honor than poor old dead Ned.

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