The plane began to descend.

飞机开始降落。

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The pilots were told to descend to 2-2,000 feet.

飞行员被告知要将飞机下降到2-2000英尺。

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The Under-20 World Cup draws only a fraction of the fans that the full World Cup will bring to South Africa, when hordes of supporters from 32 nations will descend on the southern end of the continent.

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And he tells him to descend from the mountain.

然后让他下了山。

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In Genesis 6--I mean, the text you pointed out is a good one but even better, go look at Genesis 6 where you have these nephilim, these divine beings who descend to earth and they mate with female humans.

在《创世纪》的第六章，也就是你们指出来的很好的一章,去看，你们会看到这些伟大的神灵，这些神灵降临凡间，与人类女子结合。

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Or will Spain be allowed to descend into a catastrophic 1930s-style banking crisis and Great Depression?

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While not all office-based, the mountain of paper is a steep one to descend.

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It also reflects the tendency of America's admirable checks and balances to descend into ridiculous self-parody.

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