The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.

轮子还在转，可是仓鼠已经死。

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When he looks in the driver’s side window, the driver is already dead, bloody and slouched forward against the steering wheel.

当他从驾驶位的窗户向里望去，在司机座位上的那人已经死了，满头是血的靠在车的方向盘上。

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Although there is no doubt that Mr Zhovtis was behind the wheel and that a person was left dead, the verdict and the way the trial was conducted have provoked outrage.

虽然Zhovtis先生将人撞死的事实是毫无疑问的，但是裁决以及审判的方式引起了人们的愤慨。

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Mr Coghlan, who says he is a family man, was cleared in 1996 of shooting Chris Little dead at the wheel of his Mercedes in Stockport.

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They found him in Elizabeth Street, dead behind the wheel of his Hertz car that came to rest in the interior of what had been, until his arrival, a fashionable boutique.

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We hit it, the steering wheel went dead and the car began to glide, ghosting toward the shoulder, which looked about four feet wide and well below the surface of the new blacktop it was a big drop-off of five or six inches and the shoulder was red clay drenched with rain.

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