If you take risks like that you'll wind up dead.

你要是冒那种险就会把命赔上。

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We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind.

我们可以把西部平原上覆盖的大片草地撕开，然后把有毒的化学物质倒入土壤中，直到土壤枯死，被风吹走。

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The towns were built of plywood, cardboard, plastic sheets that billowed in the wind, and the bodies of dead vehicles.

贫民窟是靠胶合板、硬纸板和废弃的车辆搭起来的，到处都有盖遮的塑料布在风中摇曳。

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What's the point of all of this study, all of this work, ?" all of this self-denial if I could just wind up" ? - this is a good question -- if I could just wind up dead tomorrow?

要是我就要死了，这所有的学习，努力，自我克制还都有什么意义“,-这是个好问题--要是我明天就死了呢？

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Jones later sent a clearance over the dead-ball line as he sought to take advantage of the wind at his back.

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