A funeral wake was in progress.

葬礼前在守灵。

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A group of reporters followed in her wake.

一群记者跟随在她的身后。

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The governor has enjoyed a huge surge in the polls in the wake of last week's convention.

州长在上周大会之后的民意测验中支持率激增。

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This is called a wake. The body is placed in a special burial box called a casket or coffin.

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Well, I don't know. It seems to me that literary influence is not at all unlike sort of speaking or writing in the wake of a founder of discursivity, but we can let that pass.

我不知道，我觉得,文学的影响力和演讲和写作的影响力还是有相似之处的,尤其是在散漫性被发现之后，但是我们可以不谈这个。

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I mean, it will wake us up in the morning. It will be the color of a beautiful bird.

我是觉得，那样的颜色会让我们在早上惊醒。它会是一只漂亮的鸟的颜色。

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The French-led operation in Mali has ousted the Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda's North African branch, from cities and town in the vast desert region they had captured a year ago in the wake of a coup.

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It was performed in Sarajevo under siege in the 1990s, in South Africa it was seen as a critique of apartheid and in the wake of Hurricane Katrina a performance in New Orleans was seen as an emblem of the city's wait for recovery.

BBC: Why are we still waiting for Godot?

Many lenders who supported ethanol ventures in 2005 are gone today, and every trend leaves a graveyard of investors in its wake, according to a panel of investors who convened in Chicago Wednesday.

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