One by one, each of the eight birds pulled sharply upward into a full loop and flew all the way around to a dead-slow stand-up landing on the sand.

八只海鸥，一个接一个，陡直向上跃升，翻了个斤斗，又兜了个圈子，以极慢的速度，直立着降落在沙滩上。

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And then I got back to the world, and the weddings and the picnics were the same as everything had been in Iraq, silent and slow and heavy and dead.

然后我到了人世间，一样的婚礼，一样的野餐，一切都和伊拉克一样，沉默，缓慢，沉重，笼罩的死亡的气息。

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Shed any dead weight among your resources which won't be necessary and could slow you down.

除掉任何资源中不需要的和可能会拖累你的无用的负重。

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Angry street demonstrations, mostly by Pinochet supporters, and the reappearance of violent right-wing groups that most Chileans thought long dead, are just some of the signs that the slow process of national reconciliation is at risk.

ECONOMIST: Chile: The Pinochet backlash | The