President Vieira was killed in March within hours of his chief political rival dying in a bomb blast.

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Sidney believed this so much in fact that when he knew himself to be dying, having been mortally wounded in a battle, he ordered that all of his own poems be burned.

西德尼深信他的这一观点,甚至当他快死的时候，也就是在战场上受了致命伤以后，他要求别人焚烧他写的全部诗歌。

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He had done a terrible thing and there he stood forever with his feet in the water below, and above him a tree with grapes hanging down, and dying of thirst.

他做了坏事,被惩罚永远站在水中,头上是一棵挂满葡萄的葡萄树,他口渴异常

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