That fancy smart phone is nothing more than a few ounces of dead weight in your pocket without a charged battery.

一个奇特小巧的电话只不过是装在你口袋里少量的静负荷，而不是充电电池。

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After the Romans took Jerusalem in AD70, the last remaining pocket of Jewish resistance was the mountaintop fortress of Masada in the desert near the Dead Sea.

公元七十年，罗马人攻占耶路撒冷之后，犹太人反抗力量的最后根据地，就是死海附近沙漠一个山峰上的马撒达城堡。

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As the train crossed a river I took out of my pocket the object that had dropped from Caswell's dead hand.

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