Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.

身患癌症濒临死亡的人会变得消瘦，并明显地衰弱下去。

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I had skated on thin ice on many assignments and somehow had got away with it.

我曾在多项任务中都处于危险的境地，但不知怎么地都化险为夷了。

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To-day all that seems pale and thin and very far away.

在今天，一切都显得苍白、单薄、遥远。

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The armed neighbor on neighbor violence of the zombie vision is just a thin celluloid line away from real life in say, a prolonged gas shortage.

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Most photomasks are created by etching away a thin film of light-blocking chrome from the surface of a quartz plate.

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William Boden of the University of Buffalo says the idea that the arteries were thin does not explain away worries about Zetia's effectiveness against heart attack-causing atherosclerosis.

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