The police were defending themselves and others against mortal danger.

警察在保卫他们自己和其他人免受致命的危险。

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Think of the very many fairy tales and legends you heard as a child in which kids are placed in mortal danger.

想一想那些你小时候听过的那些孩子们会置于致命危险的童话和传奇故事吧。

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Their eyes met and, through his gaze, he made it known that not only had the master’s chosen successor lost the fight, but the loser was now in mortal danger.

他们的眼睛对视着，通过他的注视，他确保不仅前总领挑选的继承者输了，这失败者还有生命危险。

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He makes an overpowering case for Churchill as a visionary, not least because, before others, Churchill recognized the mortal danger posed by Adolf Hitler, and in 1946 warned of the Soviet Union's Iron Curtain.

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There are elements on the left that would expose the president to political danger, and the troops to mortal danger, only to see the last administration implicated in any kind of abuse.

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Here was the man who just four years earlier had waged an unprovoked, brutal war of aggression against Israel that placed the country in mortal danger and killed some 2, 600 of its finest sons.

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