Dead Soul and Unofficial History of the Scholars are both classic works of satire, and Smiling Through Tears takes on the same style of satire as these two works of literature.

《死魂灵》与《儒林外史》同是讽刺艺术的典范之作，“含泪的笑”是这两部作品共同的讽刺风格。

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Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear, therefore, nothing any more!

你的灵魂甚至比身体死得还要快：因此，就再不会有害怕！

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Are you dead like Rover and dead all over or does your soul go off to some other place or does some part of you get reincarnated into somebody else's body?

是像一般人一样死了就死了，还是说,你的灵魂会到别的地方去,还是说你的某些东西会在别人身上重生？

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Maybe there are certain supernatural things about communication from the dead or near-death experiences that need to be explained in terms of the soul.

也许有某些超自然的关于,亡者或是弥留之人的交流,或是,濒死体验,需要借助灵魂才能解释得通

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You read figures of injured and dead, but you don't see anything that really touches the soul.

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He thought of the completed "Dead Souls" as a catechism of sorts that would save the Russian soul.

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Inafune, who is also working on neat titles like the upcoming PS Vita game Soul Sacrifice, apparently has a penchant for zombies given his past work on Dead Rising.

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