They said most had died during the trip.

他们说大多数人在旅途中死亡。

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They thought Prickles had died in the fire.

他们以为普里克尔斯已经葬身火海。

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They had died of gunshot wounds.

他们死于枪伤。

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I knew the sky was black because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the air.

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Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

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I knew...when it happened, a lot of people had died.

我知道……它发生的时候，死了很多人。

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Walters asked Jackson about how he learned the news that his friend, the princess, had died.

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Until that point the prosecutor believed his sister had died in an accidental fire.

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What had died though was the sense that blogging would change opinion in any substantial way.

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