The town of Rudbar had ceased to exist, with only skeletons of buildings remaining.

鲁德巴尔城已不存在，只剩一些建筑骨架。

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The same year, Arpanet ceased to exist.

同年，阿帕网停止使用了。

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Two years later, the Soviet Union, too, ceased to exist.

两年后，苏联也不复存在。

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Or I've imagined a story in which my body has perhaps ceased to exist, or I've imagined a story in which I exist, or at least my mind exists.

或者说,我想象着,我的躯体消亡了,也可以说,我存在,或至少我的心灵还存在

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He eventually switched; his New York this happened in many regiments in the Civil War it took so many casualties it ceased to exist and he switched to a Connecticut regiment and he served that Connecticut regiment through the summer of 1864.

他最终换了军队,内战期这很平常,他所在的纽约军队伤亡惨重,全军覆灭,他来到康乃狄格军队,他一直在此服役,度过了1865年夏

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Rather, as a bilateral, non-dispositive treaty, the ABM Treaty lapsed when the USSR ceased to exist.

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Palm, for example, has disappeared from the list because the brand has, well, ceased to exist.

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Of course, when the USSR ceased to exist, so did the award.

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