Even though developers created some fountains in their projects, these features tend to be of dead water.

即使开发商在他们的项目中创建了一些喷泉，但这些往往会是死水。

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I like the tranquil life. However, tranquilness does not mean stillness and closeness as the dead water in the well.

我喜欢过安静的生活，当然，安静不是静止，不是封闭，如井中的死水。

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The water level of Danjiangkou Reservoir is 135.17 meters now, nearly 4 meters lower than the dead water level of 139 meters , caused great inconvenience to the life of people near the reservoir.

丹江口水库坝前水位为135.17米，仍比139米死水位线低近4米，给库区人民生产生活带来极大的不便。

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There have been several proposals to pump water into the Dead Sea from the Red Sea or the Mediterranean.

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Yeah. Suppose I choose it right down there I guess 0. Well, the tangent there will not even have an x intercept. So I'm really going to be dead in the water.

好，如果我选猜想数为0，好吧,这个点的切线甚至和x轴都没交点,所以在这儿这一原则,真的不起作用了。

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It shows bloody images of fisherman cutting the fins off dead sharks then throwing them back in the water.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Some deride the stripped-down H20 as "dead water" because its natural minerals have been eliminated along with the chemicals.

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"I think in this Enron economy, this proposal is dead in the water, " said Sen.

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We will be dead in the water in a world in which powerboats are speeding past us.

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