DeadSoul and Unofficial History of the Scholars are both classic works of satire, and Smiling Through Tears takes on the same style of satire as these two works of literature.
《死魂灵》与《儒林外史》同是讽刺艺术的典范之作，“含泪的笑”是这两部作品共同的讽刺风格。
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Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear, therefore, nothing any more!
你的灵魂甚至比身体死得还要快：因此，就再不会有害怕！
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Are you dead like Rover and dead all over or does your soul go off to some other place or does some part of you get reincarnated into somebody else's body?