He told me excitedly how he narrowly escaped death.

他兴奋地向我讲述他如何死里逃生。

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Then, as his troops converged on Kandahar, he narrowly escaped death when an American bomb went astray.

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He narrowly escaped death, but five other worshippers were killed.

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Tourist Ernst Mollemans, on the last day of his vacation and taking a boat trip from one island to another south of Phuket, narrowly escaped death or serious injury when he heard the driver scream and abruptly turn the boat toward a small beach to their left.

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