She drew her breath in with a gasp and half-rose to her feet.

她吸了一口气，半站起来。

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It was a mad orgy of imagination, wassailing in the skull of a dying man who half sobbed under his breath and was quick with the wild flutter of fading heart-beats.

那是想像力的疯狂的盛筵，在一个垂死的人的头脑里祝酒，垂死者气息奄奄地哭泣着，衰微不去的心脏却仍然狂跳。

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We realize you're being overly efficient, but half the time most people will tune out the information they don't need, so you're just wasting your breath.

我们发现，你说话的效率太高了，但有一半时间，大多数人会忽略他们不需要的信息，所以，你只是白费唇舌而已。

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Expensive millennial celebrations will be cancelled as one half of the country goes crazy and the other half hunkers down and holds its breath.

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The British teen-ager -- the only one to know what happened before the boy was rushed to the hospital -- described her panic when the infant woke from a nap, gasping for breath with his eyes half-closed.

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Last week Tanya Streeter dived into the record books by descending 400 feet into the ocean and propelling herself back to the surface, all with one very deep breath lasting three and a half minutes.

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