Once it touched the installation, it would die.

一旦它碰到装置就会毙命。

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Eel had a static and elegant characteristic and was so fragile that it would die soon after reaching shore.Therefore, most eels, before sold out, would lose life in the market.

鳗鱼性静优雅，生命娇贵，离岸后便存活不了多久，所以市场上的鳗鱼不等出售便大多成了死鱼。

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It was whispered that he would soon die and he did.

有人私下说他将不久于人世，他果然死了。

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It would die soon, and they would burn a hole in the frozen ground to bury it.

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Would it be better to know when you were going to die?

你知道自己何时死亡会更好吗？

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If smallpox occurred in your community, about 30 percent of the people that acquire the disease would die from it; the other 70 percent could be disabled or permanently disfigured as a result of the disease.

如果你周围有人得了天花的话,那么百分之三十的天花病人,会因此死亡,剩下的百分之七十会成为残疾或永久毁容,这都是天花造成的

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If Mubarak were to die, it would not make a blip in the course of Egyptian history, he said.

CNN: Why Mubarak's death wouldn't change Egypt's future

And the winter months are incredibly quiet, but Paul Morris, who runs the Swan Inn, says the village would die if it wasn't for second home owners.

BBC: Election 2010: Second homes in Preseli Pembrokeshire

The authors, from the University of California, San Francisco, noted that even when DCIS becomes an invasive cancer, it's treatable when found at an early stage: The odds that a 60-year old woman with a 7 millimeter breast tumor, would die from it in the next 10 years are less than 3%, half the risk she faces of dying from another cause during that time.

WSJ: Can Breast Cancer Be Overtreated?