The window pane shattered by a baseball, a lamp knocked over by a careless child, or a plate dropped in the kitchen are already broken.The flowers are already dead.

那些曾经被孩子们的棒球砸坏的窗户、不小心碰倒的台灯以及在厨房里掉在地上摔碎的碟子都是已经毁坏了的东西。

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I don't really see it, I don't pay attention to it until there's a, you know, like a bug that's dead on the window.

我并没有看到人性，我也没有注意到，直到……打个比方吧……有一只虫的尸体粘在窗子上面。

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In the dead of winter days, snow blocking the window, like a translucent crystal ice downpipe small columns, rows hung in the eaves.

十冬腊月天，雪堵着窗户，冰溜子像透亮的水晶小柱子，一排排地挂在房檐上。

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He saw a huge fierce panther dragging the dead woman toward the window.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

In a statement read out to court, Mr Pistorius said that he was "filled with horrible fear" that someone had sneaked in through an open window of the bathroom in the dead of night.

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In a dream last night, my father, dead since 1997, was scraping the NRA sticker off the back window of his SUV.

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She cupped the wasps in her hand, the window frame shuddering beside her, as the storm sneaked in a draft to stir the dead wings, their stiffened weightlessness.

NEWYORKER: Wasps