There was dead silence but for a fly beating against the glass.

若没有一只苍蝇在扑打着玻璃，便是一片死寂。

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That, I think, is the point of putting dead animals into glass cases, or tanks of formaldehyde.

我以为，这就是把死动物放入玻璃缸或是甲醛中的用意所在。

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I turn on the overhead light in the kitchen, noting that its cake-shaped glass bowl is full of dead moths.

我打开厨房里的顶灯，发现那蛋糕形状的玻璃碗里装着满满的死飞蛾。

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The superheated particles turn to glass inside the engine and stop it dead.

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