He began to collect old books of epitaphs .

他开始收集墓志铭方面的旧书。

I write down the epitaphs , I guess as a daily awareness of mortality that arms me against it .

我写下墓志铭，我猜想每天都清醒意识到死亡会让我有思想准备去面对它。

In many a country churchyard , few pre-1800 stones of any interest are legible ; epitaphs were usually carved more shallowly than the names of the dead .

在许多乡间的墓地，鲜有尚能辨别碑文的19世纪前的墓碑；通常墓志铭都刻得比亡者的姓名要浅。

Prosperous family businesses passed down the generations are living epitaphs to the talents of their founders .

流传数代仍然繁荣的家族企业是创始人才华的活生生的墓志铭。

Ironically , some of the most powerful and stirring works of the theelin were the masterpiece epitaphs that accompanied the extinction of their people .

讽刺的是，在最震撼人心、最感人肺腑的希林作品中，有不少是和种族灭绝有关的杰出墓志铭。