Poor Pinocchio huddled close to the doghouse more dead than alive from cold, hunger, and fright.

可怜的皮诺乔蜷缩在狗窝旁边，又冷又饿又害怕，简直是半死不活。

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Jenny never had enough to eat and in winter her tiny fire barely kept her alive during the cold months.

詹妮从未吃饱过肚子，冬天，微弱的炉火勉强让她熬过那几个寒冷的月份。

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Castro, the last of the major players of the Cold War still alive, said his duty is "to contribute experience and ideas whose modest value comes from the exceptional times that I have lived through."

卡斯特罗，是冷战期间主要人物中目前还健在的，他指出，他的责任就是把他在非常时间中经历形成的各种有价值的经验和想法贡献出来。

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In other words, a person who is suffering from the effects of severe cold may seem dead,but still be alive.

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Was my Princess Dejah Thoris alive or did she lie cold in death?

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But I was also excited by the battle of ideas, and saw the height of ideological combat in the last years of the cold war as an exhilarating time to be alive and thinking.

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In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

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