Chinese legend says that people born in the Year of the Sheep have a difficult life.

在中国的传说中，羊年出生的人生活很艰难。

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He was born of German parents and lived most of his life abroad.

他的父母是德国人，他一生大部分时间生活在国外。

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Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

不论是在动物的历史中何种时候何种环境，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

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Many are about his life growing up in the state of New Jersey, where he was born in nineteen forty-nine.

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Suppose we don't know what economic circumstances we'd be born into and what kind of contingencies we'd have in life.

假设我们不知道,将会在怎样的经济环境中生存,而生命中又会有怎样的意外发生。

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Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

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Still, Barack Obama has long seemed in a class of his own when it comes to his self-confidence, seemingly born of a charmed life of extraordinary opportunities and, by and large, a lack of accountability for his actions.

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The others had died in 1969 (ie, at the age of 73, the average life expectancy at birth of women born around Boston in 1896).

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