"You're a long time dead" as the saying goes, so don't waste time with worry or regret.

俗话说，“人终有一死。”因此何必为担忧或是遗憾而浪费时间呢？

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By that time, the patient may already be dead.

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We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

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Even there, a horse is not really a rigid body, unless it's been dead for a long time.

马甚至都不是真正的刚体,除非是死了很长时间了

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Mr Black's novels include Paying For It and Long Time Dead and feature private detective Gus Dury.

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Thus their travel time is a dead loss: and reducing that travel time becomes a very valuable and major benefit.

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In a non-negotiable six minutes, long answers equal dead time and a sharp reduction in the amount of questions you can ask.

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