For years sharks were caught chiefly for their fins; often, indeed, the fins would be cut off and the creature thrown back in the water alive, there to suffer a slow death by drowning.
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生命不是一段长长的从阳光普照的高地缓慢地下落到死亡低谷的旅程,而是一个U型曲线。
Life is not a long slow decline from sunlit uplands towards the valley of death.It is, rather, a U-bend.