Playing dead can discourage predators from attacking.

装死能够阻止猎食者的进攻。

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It urgently needs to stop playing dead and face its dauntingly uncertain future.

该党迫切需要停止其装死的把戏，直面其前景实难预料的未来。

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The words are not clear you also learn to call names, sooner or later be the rhythm of playing dead.

吐词都不清楚你还学着骂人，迟早被人玩死的节奏。

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So, the barber is speaking about his son in such a way that he seems alive, but, in fact, he's dead. So here is one dead child playing baseball, or the memory of him playing baseball is alive with his father.

这个老理发师在用一种谈论,活人的口吻谈论他的儿子，但实际上他已经死了，那么，这里是一个打篮球的孩子的死，也许对他父亲而言，关于他打篮球的记忆将长存。

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It's the surviving members of the Grateful Dead playing Dead music, which always attracts a crowd.

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Mr Thompson's mother, Susan Johnson, survived Saturday's shootings by playing dead after she was shot.

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Even as the sun came out Friday afternoon, the wind continued and was especially a factor on the 18th, playing dead into the breeze.

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