He worked with a hand propping his head, feeling his skull as a mementomori.
他工作时总是用一只手支着头,好似他的头是死兆一样。
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For those who grew up in Soviet era, Gagra was a precious refuge of pleasure inside communism's bleak expanse. Now its ruins are a mementomori of poetic deterioration.
对那些生活在苏联时代的人们来说,加格拉是一个珍贵的避难所,可以暂时让他们离开苏联广阔的寒冷地带。
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Crowning the entire composition is a vase of cut flowers, an ulterior mementomori juxtaposed to the terrestrial globe, emblematic of royal power.