Otherwise died laughing.

不然笑死了。

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Many of the species are the only representative of groups that have otherwise died out. West Africa's pygmy hippopotamus, known for its thick, oily "blood-sweat, " is the only member of its genus.

很多物种是一些种群的唯一代表，否则这些种群早就灭绝了。西非的矮河马，它以稠而油的血汗被人们所知，是其种群的唯一成员。

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There are even people with plastic parts in their hearts, people who would otherwise have died.

有些人工心脏甚至还用了塑料，不然这些人可能早就不在人世了。

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They are now in their teens and would otherwise likely have died before age 10, he says.

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Although some of the deaths occurred in people with underlying diseases such as atherosclerosis (and therefore could have been coincidental), government researchers who examined otherwise healthy dieters who died of ventricular arrhythmias found that the pattern of deaths suggested "the effects of protein-calorie malnutrition on the heart, " including atrophy of the heart muscle.

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