All of a sudden, - fire and water, started an intense fight, a life and death struggle!

骤然间，——火与水，开始了的强烈厮杀，生死较量！

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But then they met a shark, the old man and the shark had a life and death struggle, the big marlin was eaten by sharks, fish skeleton man finally dragged home only a bare.

然而这时却遇上了鲨鱼，老人与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗，结果大马林鱼还是被鲨鱼吃光了，老人最后拖回家的只剩下一副光秃秃的鱼骨架。

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Its successor, on the other hand, appeared to pit key socioeconomic groups in a life-or-death struggle and was widely seen by contemporary observers as marking a historical departure.

另一方面，它的继任者似乎让关键的社会经济群体陷入生死斗争，被当代观察家广泛视为历史背离的标志。

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