Another common gripe about American nursing homes is that their residents are still all too likely to be rushed off to hospital as they begin to die.

美国疗养院另一个为人所诟病之处在于，当居住在疗养院中的老人濒临死亡之时，疗养院仍忙不迭地将他们送去医院。

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Then Israel said to Joseph, "I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers."

以色列又对约瑟说：“我要死了，但上帝必与你们同在，领你们回到你们列祖之地。”

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For our purposes, the crucial point is to see that what seems to be going on there is our hero is taking the place of somebody else who's about to die.

我们的目的是搞清楚这里的情况，我们的主人公代替别人死亡了。

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The central bad thing about the fact that I'm going to die is the fact that because I'll be dead I'll be deprived of the good things in life.

我即将死去的主要坏处,就是因为我会死掉,我生活中美好的事物都会被剥夺。

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For our purposes,the crucial point is to see that what seems to be going on there is our hero is taking the place of somebody else who's about to die.

我们的目的是搞清楚这里的情况,我们的主人公代替别人死亡了。

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There seems an unwillingness to recognise that when people are cornered, humiliated and crushed, and have no hope of escaping, some of them at least will no longer be afraid to die or care about which of their perceived enemies they take with them.

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That is because about a quarter of these people would be expected to die from cancer even had they not been exposed to Chernobyl's radiation.

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Decisions about issues like civil unions or right-to-die legislation should be made by the states, not the federal government.

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