A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb.

黑色的天宇笼罩着这些死气沉沉的街巷，有如一幅巨大的裹尸布覆盖在这巨大的坟墓上。

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On Friday, came reports of turtle doves falling from the sky near Ravenna, Italy, and thousands of dead crabs on the coast around Thanet in Kent.

周五，意大利拉文纳附近空中掉下一些斑鸠，然后数以千计的死蟹出现的肯特的萨尼特附近。

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All the bond bears have been dead wrong in predicting sky-high mortgage rates.

所有的债券持有人都预测错高企的抵押贷款利率。

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Knowing such itineraries might help us to better understand the nature of massive die-offs (thousands of black birds falling dead out of the sky, for example), or of the itineraries of bio-invasives such as the Burmese Pythons in the Everglades.

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