Why are the people burning paper?

乘客：这些人干嘛在烧冥纸？ ？

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Why are the people burning paper?

这些人干嘛在烧冥纸？

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I was dead, something burning paper.

本人已死，有事烧纸。

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You guys use computers, I used the typewriter when I started college, so I was burning more calories creating a paper than you guys have too.

你们用电脑,而我上大学时候用的是打字机,所以我写一篇论文,消耗的卡路里要比你们多

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Burning paper was pushed through his front door early on Saturday, but smoke alarms alerted the family and they managed to extinguished the blaze with a garden hose.

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Global Times adds that street vendors have been arrested for selling paper models of the iPhone 5 as part of an environmental clean-up campaign against burning paper ancestral offerings for the upcoming Tomb-Sweeping Festival in early April.

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It was the equivalent, if not of burning Thornfield Hall to the ground, then at least of ripping down the paper which Mr Hague had spent a year laying over its most jagged cracks.

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