The first street we tried turned out to be a dead end.

我们想走的头一条路结果是条死胡同。

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Thierry Heidmann of the Gustave Roussy Institute in France and his colleagues put the fossil virus hypothesis to a spectacular test: they tried to resurrect a dead retrovirus.

法国古斯塔夫roussy研究所的亨利·海德曼及其同事设计了令人惊叹的实验，他们试图复活逆转录病毒。

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If it appears that escape is not possible, then a last attempt at deflecting the attack is tried - playing dead, or otherwise appearing as an undesirable morsel to the attacker.

如果判定逃跑没希望了，最后就会试图通过装死来躲避攻击，或是用其他办法使自己在攻击者眼中看起来不那么美味。

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He tried but failed to speak the dead woman's name.

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In February,in what was seen as one of the most brutal attacks on Roma, police said Robert Csorba and his five-year-old son were shot dead when they tried to flee their home that was set on fire.

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Afterward, about 1, 000 police flooded the neighborhood, where the father of one of the dead men tried to calm area residents.

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Its indictments, once issued, remain in force until the indictee is either tried or dead.

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At the top of the stairs, he tried the dead light switch again, then closed the iron door behind him and walked out into the empty street.

NEWYORKER: Waiting