"You're a widow?"—"Yes. My husband's been dead a year now."

“你是个寡妇？”——“是的，我丈夫去世1年了。”

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The average date at which 90 percent of the mice were dead — a convenient metric for quantifying lifespan — rose from 1,078 days to 1,179 days in males, and from 1,094 days to 1,245 days in females.

90%小鼠死亡的平均寿命（一种方便度量寿命的方法）在雄性由1,078天增加为1,179天，在雌性由1,094天增加为1,245天。

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The measure, believed to be dead a few months ago, now looks likely to pass by the end of the month.

几个月前本来都认为规章制度有可能胎死腹中了，如今看起来很有可能在本月底通过。

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(Talks) He says the peace process,in his mind, has been dead for a long time.

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Yet the very fact that many big businesses seem so strategically like-minded a few months ahead of a legislative drop-dead day (literally) suggests a quieter brand of leadership, one wholly appropriate to the current exigent circumstance.

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Her sister, Joy (the terrific Scottish actress Shirley Henderson) has left her husband, Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams) because of his problematic sexual proclivities and is visited in her dreams by a dead boyfriend (Paul Reubens), who still wants her back.

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Mr Fuller, who had a degree in molecular biology, was found dead at the foot of a 60ft (18m) cliff with a fractured skull and other injuries consistent with a fall from height.

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