and with it, the virus or bacteria that may have caused the person to die.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

He wrote his son in 1704, he said, "I may die tomorrow, but be sure that you have little pleasure if you fail to follow my example.

他在一七零四年写给他的儿子信中说到,"我可能明天就死了,而如果你不能遵循我的的脚步,你是不会快乐的的

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He may not think he's going to die as a person.

他可能确实不相信自己个人的死亡。

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our chimps even have televisions." But such creature comforts don't change the fact that chimpanzees used in medical research may suffer or die, and that's unacceptable to famed primate expert Jane Goodall.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

You may take on a long-term project and then die before you've been able to complete it; or alternatively, you may peak too soon and then continue to stick around in an anti-climactic way.

你可能承担了一个长期的项目,然后在你能完成之前就死了，或者，你可能太快达到人生高峰,然后继续在平淡中徘徊。

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There have been cases,gruesome as they may be, in which entire groups of people drink poison together so as to die not alone, but die together,die as part of jointly dying,dying as a group.

有过一些例子，虽然听起来很可怕，一群人一起喝毒药以免孤单的死去，而是共同死亡，作为群体行为的一部分。

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