Dry bones can harm no one.

干骨头伤害不了任何人。

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This is like trying to find fresh water in dry bones.

这就像想要从枯骨中找到活水一样不可能。

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On a visit 150 years ago Mark Twain wrote wryly of the three-millennia-old city: “She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies.”

150年前马克.吐温（Mark Twain ）访问大马士革时幽默的评论这座三千年的古城：“她已经见识了一千个帝国的枯骨，而在她消亡之前，它会再看到另外一千个帝国的坟墓。”

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Bones,hair,feathers, even the remains of plants have been found in deep, dry caves high in the rock walls.

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