"You're a long time dead" as the saying goes, so don't waste time with worry or regret.

俗话说，“人终有一死。”因此何必为担忧或是遗憾而浪费时间呢？

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Taysir Dwayat,55,says that for him, the peace process has been dead for a long time.

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Even there, a horse is not really a rigid body, unless it's been dead for a long time.

马甚至都不是真正的刚体,除非是死了很长时间了

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Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

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Mr Black's novels include Paying For It and Long Time Dead and feature private detective Gus Dury.

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In a non-negotiable six minutes, long answers equal dead time and a sharp reduction in the amount of questions you can ask.

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Residential real estate is dead, and it will remain dead from oversupply for a long, long time.

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