American forests are being devastated by foreign pests—and forests full of dead trees are prone to catastrophic fires. A fire in Washington State, above.

美洲的森林被外来害虫毁坏---满是死树的森林容易招致惨重的大火。

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This is a state of trance when outwardly a man who reaches it is as good as dead, there being nothing but warmth as a sign of life.

这是一个出神的状态，当一个人达到这一状态时外面看起来就好象死亡一样，这里没有什么但是有体温的信号表明生命的存在。

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She said clearing western forests of dead trees was increasingly being assigned to state prison inmate crews in Arizona because of a lack of federal funds.

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After being artificially cut off from Europe by the dead hand of state socialism, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, and (my ancestral homeland of) Lithuania had regained their rightful place in the world and taken a very large step away from their troubled history of Russian and Soviet domination.

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