Not this time. The Jackson memorial may signal that Los Angeles' civic space, instead of expanding as once promised, is just withering away.

但不是现在，杰克逊的悼念活动标志着洛杉矶民众的空间并不像承诺的那样逐渐扩大，相反是缩小了。

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That was not enough for some 70 poor and low-lying countries, most faced with rising waters and withering crops.

但这对那70多个贫穷地势偏低的国家来说，这远远不够，他们中大多数面临着河面上升，庄稼枯萎的威胁。

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We are not invalids,” Mr Putin said in a withering answer to an offer of technology from Michael Dell, a computer tycoon.

普京先生在回应来自计算机巨头迈克戴尔公司的技术提案时这样生硬的说。

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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara could not have been more withering yesterday in his attack on what he depicted as a culture of fraud on Wall Street, as he gave a press conference announcing insider-trading charges against three hedge fund managers, Noah Freeman and Donald Longueuil, formerly of SAC Capital Advisors, and Samir Barai, who ran Barai Capital Management.

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He has not defended the science against the ongoing, withering and dishonest attacks.

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But controlling piracy will not solve the chief problem the Internet poses for the record companies: the withering away of manufacturing and distribution.

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