Almost everyone thought I was dead.

几乎每个人都以为我死了。

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A Wolf was almost dead with hunger. A house-dog saw him, and asked, "Friend, your irregular life will soon ruin you." Why don't you work steadily as I do, and get your food regularly?

一只狼快要饿死了，一只狗看见后问他：“你如今的无规律的生活一定会毁掉你，为什么不像本人一样稳定地干活并有规律地取得食物呢？”

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A Wolf was almost dead because of hunger. A house-dog saw him, and asked, "Friend, your irregular life will soon ruin you. Why don't you work steadily as I do, and get your food regularly?"

一只狼快要饿死了，一只狗看见后问他：“你现在无规律的生活一定会毁掉你，为什么不像我一样稳定地干活并有规律地获得食物呢？”

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Then we walked up to 43rd Street to where I happened to know I could get someone to let me into a locked building where we could charge our now almost dead, though also useless where we live, phones.

FORBES: Robinson Crusoe in 21st Century Manhattan

"I, poor, miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, during a dreadful storm, in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called the Island of Despair, all the rest of the ship's company being drowned, and myself almost dead, " Crusoe writes in his first entry.

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