头发有很古怪的性格，表面上死亡：你可以修剪它，烧它，然而，它仍继续生长。

Hair is of a rather odd nature, seemingly dead: you can cut it, you can burn it. Yet, still grows.

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但是，自从2012年普京回到克里姆林宫之后，那些争执只是将一些表面上的东西具体化罢了：一改当初大肆宣扬的2009俄美关系“重启计划”正在死亡的说话，直接宣布该计划已死亡。

But the spat over that only crystallised something apparent since Mr Putin returned to the Kremlin in 2012: that the "reset", launched with much fanfare in 2009, is not just dying, but dead.

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但是，自从2012年普京回到克里姆林宫之后，那些争执只是将一些表面上的东西具体化罢了：一改当初大肆宣扬的2009俄美关系“重启计划”正在死亡的说话，直接宣布该计划已死亡。

But the spat over that only crystallized something apparent since Mr Putin returned to the Kremlin in2012: that the "reset", launched with much fanfare in 2009, is not just dying, but dead.

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