For years sharks were caught chiefly for their fins; often, indeed, the fins would be cut off and the creature thrown back in the water alive, there to suffer a slow death by drowning.

很多年来，捕捉鲨鱼主要就是为了获取它们的鳍。实际上，鲨鱼鳍经常被割掉，而其身体被活活地扔回水里，使其因溺水遭受缓慢死亡的痛苦。

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Cheating was alive and well back then, so a scribe copied everyone's answers to reduce its occurrence - and depending on the year, cheating could be punishable by death!

作弊当时也很盛行，所以有抄写员抄下每个人的答案减少来这种事情的发生。有些年份，作弊甚至会处以死刑！

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It's also a story about women and death, and while Chabrol liked to be regarded as versatile, those two topics kept coming back.

它仍是一个有关女人和死亡的故事，而夏布洛尔喜欢被认为具备多种才能的，所以有关这两个主题的电影不停地来来回回。

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Or perhaps a better way to put it would be they've had death experiences but then have been brought back to life.

或者一种更好的表述方式,是他们经历了死亡体验,但是之后被带回人世

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