It was as though Corinne was already dead: they were speaking of her in the past tense.

就好像科琳已经死了似的：他们当时在用过去时态谈起她。

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Are all the flowers dead, or do some of them come again in the summer?

所有的花都死了吗，还是有一些也会在夏天活过来？

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All three incidents occurred in the dead of night.

3起事件都发生在深夜。

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In general,dead or living parts of plants need to be removed to improve the shape or growth of the plant.

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Even if these people didn't stay in the second room, they didn't stay dead, they had some experience of being dead.

即使这些人没在第二个房间待过,他们没有保持死亡状态,但是他们多少有些死亡的体验

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The meaning of Welles is that the past is simply dead what we do in present is creating myth about it.

威尔斯想要表达的就是过去已经逝去了,而我们今天做的仅是创造神话。

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In a statement read out to court, Mr Pistorius said that he was "filled with horrible fear" that someone had sneaked in through an open window of the bathroom in the dead of night.

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There are few experiences more thrilling than tracking and capturing a wild crocodile in the dead of night, on a river in the heart of the Central American jungle.

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Rather than risk a frontal assault from the sea, he borrowed 23 native canoes, long sleek war vessels called pirogues, and crept up the coast towards the unsuspecting town in the dead of night in 1668.

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