Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.

如今，一份解雇通知书、一个不利的诊断结果或者配偶的去世都可能在几个月之内将一个家庭从稳定的中产阶层家庭降格成为一个新贫困家庭。

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

在他去世之前，新闻业的品味早已改变很长时间了，而且他所擅长的措词华丽的维多利亚爱德华时期的散文风格对后现代的读者没有什么用处。

For many months afterward, and at many times since, I was swallowed up in the deep fog of grief—what I think of as the void—an emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even to breathe.

他去世后好几个月里，我经常悲伤得无法自已，内心只觉得一片无尽的空虚四处蔓延，占据了五六腑，我无力思考，甚至感觉像要窒息。

That's it. My father's dead, obviously, there are no siblings.

没有了，父亲去世了，我也没有兄弟姐妹。

When Kobe Bryant died, a piece of me died.

·布莱恩特去世，我的一部分也跟着他走了。

I got many letters of consolation when my mother died.

当我母亲去世时, 我收到许多慰问信.

A few years later, when Arnold's manly piety had begun to leaven the school, the tables turned: before he died, in the Schoolhouse at least, and I believe in the other houses, the rule was the other way.

几年后，阿诺德校长以勇敢和虔诚开始潜移默化地转变这种风气，在他去世前，至少拉格学校的情形不同了。我想其他学校里并没有什么变化。

And how Buddy was born and put up for adoption by his mother, and how she had later passed away.

巴迪又是如何出生，后来被其母亲送养，而后他母亲去世。

He was known to us all as Dickie and his eccentricity had become legendary long before hd died.

大家都管他叫迪基，在他去世前很久，他的怪癖就已经成了传奇了。

And particularly, the celebratory feast paid homage to loved ones who had passed away recently.

尤其是举办祭礼向最近去世的亲人表示纪念。

The friend died. The friend was an artist.

那个朋友去世了 他是位画家。

The former First Lady died Sunday after entering hospice care on Friday.

这位前第一夫人于上周五进入临终关怀中心，在上周日去世。

And actress Charlotte Rae died at the age of 92.

女演员夏洛特·雷去世，享年92岁。

Chavez died of cancer two years ago. Since then, the country's gone into a tailspin.

查兹斯两年前因癌症去世。自那时起，委内瑞拉就进入了失控状态。

Mrs. Solis, my husband's gone. I'm estranged from my family.

索利斯夫人，我丈夫早就去世了。家庭成员都疏远了我。

Officials there say Eric Duncan died Wednesday morning after fighting " courageously" against the disease.

当局官员说，埃里克·邓肯在周三上午去世，他曾勇敢地与疾病作斗争。

Ms Ginsburg's death gives the party a window to fill her seat on the Supreme Court with a conservative, further tipping its ideological balance to the right.

金斯格的去世为共和党提供了一个窗口，让保守派人士填补她在最高法院的席位，进一步将共和党的意识形态平衡向右倾斜。

And a few weeks after her funeral, I had a dream where I got to see her and talk to her and visit with her for a little bit.

去年秋天，我妈妈去世了，在她葬礼几周后，我梦到了她，还在梦里和她说话，还和她四处转了转。

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

从 1917 年开始一直到 1975 年去世不久前还在为曼彻斯特《卫报》写文章的 Neville Cardus，如今仅仅作为一个撰写关于板球赛文章的作家被人们所知。

The children had just been reunited with their grandparents who had passed away years ago.

孩子们与已经去世多年的爷爷奶奶重聚了。