Death is the natural state of things, and life is a distortion of the natural order.

死亡才是事物的自然状态，而生命只是一种对自然法则的扭曲。

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Our capitalist foresaw this state of things, and that was the cause of his laughter.

我们的资本家早就预见到了这种情况，这正是他发笑的原因。

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Andrew wants to have his father's sword gram, gram means he can manage the state of things.

安德鲁想要父亲的宝剑格拉墨，拥有格拉墨就代表他可以管理国家的事物。

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"The current state of the economy has slowed things down a little bit here recently.

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The answer lies in "a universal attribute of instinct and perhaps of organic life in general," that "an instinct is an urge inherent in organic life to restore an earlier state of things."

答案就在本能,或者生命机体中“,他说：，“本能就是生命体与生俱来的,想要回到最初状态的驱动力“

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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If Ball is ultimately lyrical, Marq de Villiers is political, and he's not happy about the state of things.

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"The control over what people communicate is lost and we have to adapt to this new state of things, " he said via e-mail.

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Her manager and co-workers harass her about her non-voting ways, saying that if she doesn't vote, she doesn't have the right to complain about the state of things.

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