Year after year, beginning in 1922, the Digest was the bible of everyday American life, featuring short human-interest and success stories, advice columns, memorable quotations, and tasteful jokes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

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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Very often in these creations stories there is some sense of some realm from which life begins to emerge usually beginning with gods.

通常在这些创作的故事里，都会说到,神是人类的最先。

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His new book, The Council of Dads: My Daughters,My Illness and the Men Who Could Be Me, I started making a list of six men from all parts of my life, beginning when I was a child and stretching through today.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

Against the backdrop of Marx's thought pervading - not just Russian life but beginning to pervade Russian government-- against this backdrop, the idea of struggle, as in class struggle, is going to predominate.

马克思的思想不但席卷,俄国普通百姓的生活，并且开始影响俄国政府-,在这样的背景下，人们认为阶级斗争是历史发展的主要推动力。

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And indeed, as we shall see, well, the tragic view of life, which the Greeks invent and which characterizes their culture, is there right at the beginning in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

确实,我们可以看到,悲剧人生观,在伊利亚特和奥德赛的一开始就有所体现,这是希腊人首先提出的,体现了他们的文化性格

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There seems to be in existence from the beginning of creation this universal moral law, and that is: the God-endowed sanctity of human life.

这个道德准则似乎在,创始之初就存在，它是指：,上帝使人类具有神圣性。

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