"The elm trees are all dying," said Palmer, with a sad shake of his head.

“这些榆树全都要死了，”帕尔默说道，难过地摇了摇头。

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I had an image in my head of Oscar sitting with Donna and her dying mother in a darkened room during the woman's final days.

我的脑海里立即浮现一幅情景：在那位老太太生命最后的日子里，奥斯卡就坐在当娜身边，和她一起陪伴着临终的母亲。

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Baby turtles hatching at night head to buildings' bright lights rather than the ocean, dying in the process.

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So the sick and the dying head to Musina, a town on the South African side of the porous border.

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John Reynolds in the foreground on a stretcher, dying from the head wound he suffered at Herbst Wood, a geographic feature in the center of the painting that was crucial in delaying the Confederate advance.

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To some, the purchase was a head-scratching gambit: The sport of horse racing is perceived to be dying a slow, inexorable death, an ember of the 20th-century sporting scene, like boxing.

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