I could see a thick layer of dust on the stairs.

我能看见楼梯上厚厚的一层灰尘。

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O Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me.

哦，彼得，别把仙灰浪费在我身上。

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The idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.

这样做是为了让人们不要自私，不要把书放在家里的书架上积灰尘。

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He says there is likely more risk from lead dust on plants or from playing in the soil than from the plant itself.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

On a familiar religious view, God built Adam out of dirt, out of dust.

从某个大家熟悉的宗教观点来看,上帝用泥沙尘土建造亚当

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And then as they become toddlers as they started crawling around, they get that lead dust on their hands from the windowsills in the floors, they put it in their mouth."

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

Dust on a lens could cause the entire output of the plant to be worthless.

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We turn to see rocks and boulders tumbling beneath a plume of dust on the mountainside.

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But the consulting firm he co-founded in 1983, Monitor Group, officially bit the dust on November 7.

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