If the Sun so willingly leaves us, each morning it returns is a stay of execution, an undeserved gift.

如果太阳这么想扔下我们不管，每天清晨它的返回都是一种缓期执行，是一件我们不配得到的礼物。

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Lawyers for Richard raced to file an appeal that would put a stay on his execution, which was due to take place that evening, but they were delayed by computer glitches.

里查德的律师抓紧时间提出上诉要求推迟原定于晚上执行的死刑，但是由于电脑故障而耽搁了。

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Some of my most difficult and lonely moments as governor were deciding whether to grant a stay of execution, to halt an execution, or to allow the execution to proceed.

我作为州长时最困难和孤独的一些时刻是决定是否授予缓期执行，中止执行，或者允许执行继续进行。

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To treat it as an object of nostalgia achieves only a temporary stay of execution.

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Sirius XM Radio is fighting for a stay of execution, reworking some of its debt in an effort to avoid bankruptcy.

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Though Kemmler confessed to the crime and said publicly that he was prepared to die, Westinghouse secretly financed an all-out legal effort to win a stay of execution, challenging the constitutionality of electrocution.

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