Rather than a dead and unchanging world, it could in fact be a very dynamic and interesting one.

与其说月球是个死亡不变的世界，事实上不如说它可能是个非常活跃而有趣的世界。

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The modern ancien regime is rather only the comedian of a world order whose true heroes are dead.

现代的旧制度毋宁说只是一种世界次序的笑剧，其真实的英雄们已经死去。

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Indigenous tribes in many parts of the world discovered that the best way of disposing the dead was to put them up high, rather than down below.

在世界许多地方的土著部落中发现，处理死者最好的方式是把他们往高处放，而不是埋入坟墓中。

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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

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Officially, efforts to launch a new round are suspended rather than dead.

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By finding a hero who rises from shacks and degradation, the film reflects a surprising new consensus that even as slums proliferate around the world at a greater scale than ever before, they could, with the right mix of policies, be the launching pads for upward mobility rather than dead-ends.

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The ancestor of polo, this traditional game of horsemen is played with a dead goat rather than a ball.

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