The residents were trying to escape from the fire but were overcome by smoke.

居民们正设法逃出大火，却被烟熏倒了。

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They are trying to escape the heat.

他们正设法避暑。

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He had stubbornly refused to act; moreover, he was always trying to escape.

他固执地拒绝采取行动；此外，他总是企图逃跑。

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The streets were filled with refugees trying to escape the burning city.

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And in later letters in this series between her and Richard, and also in the review that she wrote up for the Book of the Month Club newsletter), she invokes the Nazis specifically as a comparison to the kind of oppression that Richard was trying to escape in the South.

她在之后与理查的通信中，把理查在南方,与德国纳粹做比较，当时社会的主流思想,就是在为了美国式的理想,为了自由而战。

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The army said at the time that they were killed while trying to escape.

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Up ahead, a group of Americans, some wounded, were desperately trying to escape the bullets raining down.

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He was pushed from the window while trying to escape and suffered injuries to his legs and back.

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