He fell to the ground in a dead faint.

他跌倒在地，昏死过去。

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She slumped to the ground in a faint.

她跌倒在地上不醒人事。

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The government is claiming the high ground in the education debate.

政府在教育辩论中处于有利地位。

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The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

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Well, the energy at infinity is zero -K and the energy in the ground state is minus K.

无限远处的能量值为,而基态能量值为。

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She's a flower, she's perishable, she's half hidden, - and she's ultimately dead and in the ground-- whereas a star would seem to be something that she just can't be mapped onto if she is this half-hidden thing.

她是一朵花，是易腐烂的，有一半深埋在土里，最终凋谢回归土地-,如果她一般在土里,她就不可能是星星。

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But it was a miserable place to stay, its attic full of manic squirrels, its floor a dull smear of ground-in soot and dirt, its walls impregnated with the oily emanations of ten thousand meals.

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So in the case of Clear Capital, the company has its market analytics department, but it also boasts an on-the-ground in-house staff that crunches tens of thousands of real-time valuation reports across the country, looking at everything from broker price opinions to appraisals.

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The options for shelters are many: above-ground, below-ground, mounted in the garage, on the patio, on a poured slab or even in a space carved out beneath the slab.

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