400 people a year die of this disease on average.

平均每年有400人死于这种疾病。

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Seeing people die of hunger when he was young, Yuan decided to find a way to improve rice production and fill people's bowls.

看到人们还年纪轻轻就死于饥饿，袁决定找到一种方法来提高水稻产量，填饱人们的饭碗。

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In 1960, Yuan Longping saw many people die of hunger, so he made a decision to do some research into a new kind of rice—hybrid rice.

1960年，袁隆平看到许多人死于饥饿，因此他决定做一些研究，研究一种新的水稻——杂交水稻。

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He worried about his motorcycle. If the engine failed, he could die of lack of water before anyone could find him.

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In contrast today, because we have antibiotics and we have vaccines, people don't die of infectious diseases as often.

相反,在现在,因为我们有了抗生素和疫苗,死于感染性疾病的人就不像以前那么多

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Or this community that doesn't have safe drinking water so regularly children die of diarrhea because they cannot afford to treat their water, they don't have the fuel to boil their water or something.

可能还有这样一个地方，那里没有安全的饮用水,孩子们时常死于痢疾,因为他们拿不出钱对水进行处理，也没有燃料来把水烧开。

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As some 75% of avalanche victims die of suffocation, not trauma, this saved her life.

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Half a billion get the disease every year and more than a million die of it.

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That year polio infected 52, 000 Americans, some 3, 000 of whom would later die of it.

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