No, it was when, at age 25, he watched his wife Maria die during the eighth month of her pregnancy, along with their child, because they couldn't afford decent medical care.

那是在他25岁的时候，他亲眼看着自己怀胎八个月的妻子玛利亚和他们的孩子一起死了，仅仅是因为他们支付不起昂贵的医疗费。 这才是他决定踏入仕途的真正原因。

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AFTER the nagging question of why we are here at all, the one about why we age and die comes a pretty close second.

我们究竟为何来到这世界是个恼人的问题，我们为何变老死亡是紧跟而来的问题。

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By the time Mizoguchi achieved international acclaim he was approaching the end of a long and productive career (he was to die, at the relatively young age of 58, in 1956).

当沟口健二赢得国际赞誉之时，他已接近其漫长而高产的职业生涯之终点(他于1956年去世，彼时他还相对年轻，只有58岁)。

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"Of course my father was still a relatively young man back then, 62, and we had no idea he would die at the relatively young age of 65, " she says.

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