Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.

身患癌症濒临死亡的人会变得消瘦，并明显地衰弱下去。

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Without our work the air on our planet would grow thin and we would all die.

如果我们的工作没有我们这个星球上的空气会增长薄，我们就都死了。你为什么会攻击我们？

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The Chinese people always eat a lot of foods, but may grow thin; few each dish, the Westerners, but much stronger than the Chinese.

中国人吃饭每次都上很多菜，可都长得很瘦，西方人每次菜很少，但都比中国人长得结识。

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They are tall and thin, and seem to grow from the canyon floor.

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The cushion of available oil will grow thin, and an unsettled atmosphere will likely translate into another spiky curve for oil prices this year.

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So too is the lack of space in India's jam-packed city centres, which means shopping malls grow tall and thin, limiting scope for giant multiplexes.

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Nokia is flooding the markets with these WP 7.8 phones in order to make the ecosystem grow (maybe with thin profit or no profit, but it is very important, and it is worth it).

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