Than a fading star.

相比于一颗在消逝的星。

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If it's a Star fruit... then it's a fading Star (fruit), only number 17 for the coolest shaped fruit in the world.

杨桃长得像星星，却不能成为水果界的明星(才排到17名)。世上最有形的水果只能排到第17名。

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The summer light was fading to gold near Red Square as Oliver Stone maneuvered through the lobby bar of a five-star Moscow hotel last year.

去年夏天，阳光在红场（Red Square）附近慢慢褪成金色，奥利弗·斯通（Oliver Stone）穿过莫斯科一家五星级酒店的大堂酒吧。

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On the same street as the theater is this 1893 structure, built by mining millionaire Lewis Bradbury, where characters George Valentin (fading star) and Peppy Miller (rising talent) pass each other on the ornate staircase, with Peppy stopping to blow him a kiss.

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After a sprightly first ten minutes, the magic simply evaporates from the surface of the film, and one actor after another comes to grief: Will Ferrell overheats as a fading star called Jack, who fancies himself as a Darren de nos jours, while Shirley MacLaine is handed the part of Endora and pretty much abandoned to her fate.

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