A full-scale character assassination of the dead woman got underway in the tabloid press.

一场对这位已故妇女的全面人身攻击在小报媒体上展开。

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As one character says, when asked to speak about the execution ofher husband: "Dead is dead. There's nothing to talk about now.

就像其中的一个人物，当别人提起她被依法处决的丈夫时，她回应，“死了就是死了，我现在什么都不想说。”

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In Perry, in particular, he captured an extraordinarily complex character, one capable of placing a pillow beneath Kenyon's head to make him more comfortable minutes before shooting him dead.

尤其是对于佩里，卡波特描绘了他极其复杂的性格。 在杀死凯尼恩之前的几分钟里，他会把枕头放到这个孩子的脑袋下，让他舒服一点。

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So for our purposes, we don't have to ask ourselves when Socrates in the dialogue says something, is this a view that the dead man Socrates actually would have held or is this simply a view that the dead man Plato put in the mouth of the character Socrates?

所以,出于这门课程的目的,我们无需深究,苏格拉底在对话中的某个观点,到底是属于那个真实的受死之人苏格拉底的,还是属于已故之人柏拉图,通过作品中苏格拉底这个角色所表述的

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The uncanny valley effect could have to do with uncertainty about whether a robotic character is truly alive or dead, and even play into our deep-seated fears of death.

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He described the dead man as a "happy-go lucky character".

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The uniquely Islamic religious character witnessed in the 'city of dead', is a consequence of the grouping of princes' and rulers' mausoleums close to the tombs and khanqahs (hermitages) of saints revered by them.

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