他追踪找到了他的堂兄和叔叔。后者病了。

He tracked down his cousin and uncle. The latter was sick.

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他们设法解决供电和供水的连接问题。前者与后者相比证明很简单。

They grappled with the problem of connecting the electricity and water supplies. The former proved simple compared with the latter.

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“别怕。”后者对他的主人说。

"Have no fear," said the latter to his master.

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One sort of opens up the beginning of life here and the other closes it down through a referencing of death.

前者讲的是生命的开始,后者通过诠释死亡,讲述了生命的终结

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The realization that I think everyone needs to have about that latter option, putting it on the shelf, is that you can come back to it.

我觉得人们选择,选择后者，就是暂时搁置，以观后效，的时候，是因为这样可以重新审视它。

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Sometimes, Mill agrees, we might succumb to the temptation to do the latter, to be couch potatoes.

穆勒同意，我们有时会无法抵挡后者的诱惑,选择后者，做沙发土豆。

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