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The situation is so dire it might shave time off people's lives, they suggest.

他们表示，情况很可怕，有可能会减短人类的寿命。

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Death rates may not have been so dire if the reefs were not overstressed by other things humans are doing — again, we'll never know.

我们又一次永远也不知道如果没有人类的过度活动，珊瑚礁是不是还会有这样惊人的死亡率。

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"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

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Take away the weight of the Capitals' history, and the team's plight doesn't look so dire.

WSJ: History not on Caps' side for Game 5 vs. Rangers

So if matters are so dire, why did the Donald leave the race, if only temporarily?

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Her security situation eventually became so dire that she moved to the U.S. in 2002.

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