The child was delivered, but lifeless. As the obstetrician gazed at the still form, a shiver of horror passed over her.

孩子生下来了，但是死了。产科医生看到静止不动的孩子时一阵恐怖的战栗传遍了他的全身。

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Dry stone walls may appear stark and lifeless, but they provide a valuable habitat for plants and animals.

干燥的石墙看上去荒凉而且没有生命迹象，但是它们却为动植物提供了宝贵的栖居地。

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The result may be a sludge-like soup, apparently lifeless-hence the name dead zones-but in truth teeming with simple, and often toxic, organisms.

结果可能是象泥汤一样，明显地没有生气(因此叫死区)，但是实际上充满着简单的、经常有毒的生物体。

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Happily, though, Synaptics says that's something it's able to fine-tune, depending on whether a PC maker wants a firmer keyboard or something a bit softer. (We say the market has enough flat, lifeless Ultrabook keyboards, but that's just us.) In any case, we hope to test a more polished keyboard sometime later -- one that has all those additional touch-sensitive features enabled.

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But they couldn't hold it as the Islanders bounced back from a lifeless performance in Game 1.

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