Those few plaintive words summed up how, in a few short months, anorexia had transformed their healthy daughter into a painfully thin shadow of her former self.

那些哀伤的言语总结了厌食症是如何在数个月内让他们健康的女儿成为一个她自己塑造的，痛苦地瘦削的影子。

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Even if Lehman can claw its way back, it is likely to be a shadow of its former self.

即使雷曼能回到以前的路上，这对其自身都是一个挥之不去的阴影。

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He is arrested after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and sent to Azkaban, from which he emerges a broken man and a shadow of his former self.

在经历了魔法部一役后，他被逮捕关押在阿兹卡班，从此他变得灰头土脸、衰弱不堪，仿佛过去自己的灰色阴影一般。

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Kolo Toure, playing at right-back because Bacary Sagna is out injured, looked a shadow of his normal self - and even Cesc Fabregas looked shockingly out of sorts in midfield.

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Around the corner from my last apartment in Seattle sits The 5 Point Cafe, a self-described dive bar in the shadow of the Space Needle.

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Accusing Mr Balls of "bumptious self-confidence", he said the shadow chancellor's starting point "seemed to be that the past was another country, that 2010 was year zero".

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