The air was utterly dead.

空气完全是死气沉沉的。

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The old woman’s shaking voice vanished in the air. It was dead still around.

一丝发抖的声音，在空气中愈颤愈细，细到没有，周围便都是死一般静。

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It's not just a matter of looking frightfully regal on a horse, the monarch has to be able to master the radio microphone. Spectacle must not be replaced by dead air.

皇家不只是要在马背上显得十分骁勇，君主必须有能力去掌握利用无线电麦克风。

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When the smoke cleared, 13 rebels and five air-force staff were dead, and half the fleet of Air Lanka, together with eight military planes, had gone up in flames.

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The single 120mm shell landed on a stall in the packed open-air market just before noon leaving Muslims and Serbs dead and injured.

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Ranger Dalzell, who was unresponsive, was attended to by medics and air-lifted to the field hospital at Camp Bastion where he was declared dead.

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