If the Sun so willingly leaves us, each morning it returns is a stay of execution, an undeserved gift.

如果太阳这么想扔下我们不管，每天清晨它的返回都是一种缓期执行，是一件我们不配得到的礼物。

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The project was within hours of bankruptcy when MGM's bankers agreed to a stay of execution.

最后，就在离破产还有几小时的时候，美高梅的贷款银行们同意延期执行债务追讨，这个项目才免于破产。

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Veronica tells him that a two-week stay of execution is a step in the right direction, but LJ is tired of waiting around.

Veronica告诉他，两个星期的缓期执行是个不小的进展，但LJ没有耐性再等下去了。

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Friday evening, a U.S. district judge refused a request to stay the execution.

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He is the only person with the power to grant clemency to stay the execution and commute Williams' four death sentences to life imprisonment with no parole.

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Analysts reckon that the banks gave the stay of execution only because a second collapse on the same day as the downfall of Daewoo Motor would have triggered a crisis of confidence.

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