Every hunch led to a blind alley and every hypothesis to a dead end.

每一次直觉都是死路一条，每一次假设都是死胡同。

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Ajit Varki, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, argues that the awareness of mortality on its own would have led evolution to a dead end.

加州大学圣地亚哥分校的生物学家阿吉特·瓦奇论述道：对自身死亡之必然的认知，会将进化引入死胡同。

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Almost every team chose to follow a gully that led to a dead end, and this is where most rovers either broke down or lost communications.

几乎每支队都选择沿着大裂缝搜寻，结果被带进了死胡同。大多数探测器要么摔残了，要么失去了联系。

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For the wise man who had led the Union through four years of bloody civil war Father Abraham -- was dead.

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And the president who had led the Union during that war was dead.

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The two men first tried to follow the money, but that led to a dead end.

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The company also sold a good deal of back-catalog material, led by Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto 4.

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Even though ex-UK PM Gordon Brown (Labor) first pushed for an FTT in the EU and G-20 a few years back, a new Tory-PM Cameron-led UK is dead set against FTT and bashing banks and traders.

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