This proved to be a telling blow.

这成为关键的/致命的一击。

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Hearing those words announcing his death was like a blow to the solar plexus knocking the breath out of me, but telling the rest of my family was more dreadful.

听到宣布他死亡的那些话语，我的心口就像被猛击了一下而无法呼吸，但是把消息传达给家里的其他人则更加的可怕！

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The couple's employers, Kaiser Permanente, said that they had been fired a week ago and disputed Lupoe's account of an administrator telling him to "blow his brains out".

这对夫妻的雇主“帝王永存”说，他们在一周前就被炒鱿鱼了，并且关于鲁珀说他上司让他“把他的脑袋打开花”，他们提出了质疑。

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The Blues failed to make their numerical advantage count, but they delivered the telling blow five minutes from time with a superb counter-attack.

BBC: Bath 6-14 Blues

After 109 goalless minutes and with the match headed for penalties, Lee fired the telling blow to spark scenes of wild celebration on the Japan bench.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

But Sprott landed some good jabs in the following two rounds before delivering the telling blow to set up a world title eliminator with Matt Skelton.

BBC: Sprott knockout shatters Harrison