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They break routines, because autopilot is death.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
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The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
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It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.
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That's especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia ( ' , 厌食症) results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.
出自-2015年12月听力原文
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Americans have always argued about the death penalty.
出自-2015年12月听力原文
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The team conducted a computer-based analysis to determine the impact a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt intake on rates of heart disease and death.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
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There may be some matters of life and death or highest principle, which might justify such a risk, but there aren't many things that fall in this category.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
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There seems to be more of a taboo (禁忌) about talking about money than about death
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
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It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良)and heat-related health problems.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
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Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
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Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
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a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
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Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.
2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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For example, 10 bacteria or less of an especially deadly strain of bacteria can cause severe illness and death in people with compromised immune systems.
2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor.
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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In the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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Of the 36 states that allow the death penalty, 30 permit the execution of minors.
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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So if something happens to their food source, they have a way of not starving to death until they find more algae to eat.
2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a "measured haste" to get big new things done while there is still time.
2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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The young murderer remained on death row for ten years while his lawyer appealed to the governor.
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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Since tobacco is one of the biggest causes of premature death in the UK, a measure that tames the habit even by a fraction is worth trying.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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Premature death rates resulting from smoking have declined.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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The leading causes of death in this age group are also changing.
出自-2016年12月听力原文
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That pushed flu from the third leading cause of death to the fifth.
出自-2016年12月听力原文
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One reason for the rise in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in this group may be that developing this condition remains possible even after people beat the odds of dying from other diseases such as cancer.
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On the other hand, the death rate from flu dropped from 7.4% in 2000 to 4.1% in 2014.
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In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.
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In 2000, the top five causes of death for centenarians were heart disease, stroke, flu, cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease.
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But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.
出自-2016年12月听力原文
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But because this population is getting larger, the number of deaths in this group is also increasing.
出自-2016年12月听力原文
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John Rother, the AARP's head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.
出自-2010年12月阅读原文
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Don't risk injury or death beacuse of over-confidence or lack of knowledge.
出自-2012年12月听力原文
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Consistently, research shows that communicating with others promotes health, whereas social isolation is linked to stress, disease, and early death.
出自-2010年6月听力原文
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But insurance will be cold comfort following the failure on October 31st of VSS Enterprise, resulting in the death of one pilot and the severe injury to another.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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But its surface has been cooked and dried by an ocean of carbon dioxide, trapped in the burning death grip of a runaway greenhouse effect.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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Flamingos, however, are the only species that actually makes life in the midst of all that death.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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Her time-lapse videos of the revivals look like someone playing a tape of the plant's death in reverse.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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It is becoming increasingly clear that retail reinvention isn't a simple battle to the death between bricks and clicks.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers not sleep in the same bed as their babies, but sleep in the same room.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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The death of a small child would have no effect upon the income of the family.
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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Three hundred years after her death, Merian will be celebrated at an international symposium in Amsterdam this June.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
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Through careful preparation, the death toll from a super tropical storm in November 2007 was less than 3, 500.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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N-VAR
死;死亡
Death is the permanent end of the life of a person or animal.
例句
1.5 million people are in immediate danger of death from starvation.
150 万人正面临着被饿死的急迫危险。
...the thirtieth anniversary of her death...
她逝世 30 周年的纪念日
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N-COUNT
(某种)死法,死亡方式
A particular kind of death is a particular way of dying.
例句
They made sure that he died a horrible death...
他们让他死得很惨。
He would rather have a decent death which served some purpose than a meaningless death.
他宁愿死得其所,也不想无谓地死去。
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N-SING
终结;结束;灭亡;破灭
The death of something is the permanent end of it.
例句
It meant the death of everything he had ever been or ever hoped to be.
这意味着他过去的一切存在或曾经希望的存在均已终结。
...the death of pop music.
流行音乐的死亡
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PHRASE
病危;行将就木
If you say that someone is at death's door, you mean they are very ill indeed and likely to die.
例句
He told his boss a tale about his mother being at death's door...
他向老板谎称自己的母亲病危。
My dad was the same. He could be at death's door but wouldn't say a word.
我爸爸也一样。他就算已经病得快不行了也还是会一声不吭。
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PHRASE
斗争到底;誓死捍卫
If you say that you will fight to the death for something, you are emphasizing that you will do anything to achieve or protect it, even if you suffer as a consequence.
例句
He said they did not want war—but if attacked they would fight to the death...
他说他们不希望有战争——但一旦遭到攻击,定会战斗到底。
She'd have fought to the death for that child.
她会为了那个孩子抗争到底。
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PHRASE
生死决斗;殊死决战
If you refer to a fight or contest as a fight to the death, you are emphasizing that it will not stop until the death or total victory of one of the opponents.
例句
...an eleven-hour fight to the death between a baboon and leopard...
一只狒狒和一头美洲豹之间长达 11小时的殊死搏斗
He now faces a fight to the death to reach the quarter-finals.
他现在面临一场杀入四分之一决赛的殊死决战。
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PHRASE
生死攸关的;至关重要的
If you say that something is a matter of life and death, you are emphasizing that it is extremely important, often because someone may die or suffer great harm if people do not act immediately.
例句
Well, never mind, John, it's not a matter of life and death...
好了,约翰,别太在意了。这又不是什么生死攸关的大事。
We're dealing with a life-and-death situation here...
我们正面临一个生死关头。
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PHRASE
被处死;被处决
If someone is put to death, they are executed.
例句
Those put to death by firing squad included three generals.
行刑队处决的那些人里有 3 名将军。
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PHRASE
(用于动词后)以致死亡
You use to death after a verb to indicate that a particular action or process results in someone's death.
例句
He was stabbed to death.
他被刀刺中身亡。
...relief missions to try to keep the country's population from starving to death...
努力确保该国人民不被饿死的救援任务
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PHRASE
(用于形容词或动词后,表示强调)吓得要死/无聊得要命
You use to death after an adjective or a verb to emphasize the action, state, or feeling mentioned. For example, if you are frightened to death or bored to death, you are extremely frightened or bored.
例句
He scares teams to death with his pace and power...
他的速度之快、力量之大让其他队胆战不已。
Whereas 10 years ago I would have worried myself to death about it, now I accept it is part of the game...
10 年前我会为此担心得要命,但现在我接受了它是游戏的一部分。
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PHRASE
使…累死累活地工作(或劳动)
If you say that someone works another person to death, you are emphasizing that they make them work very hard indeed, especially in a way that seems cruel or unfair.
例句
They worked themselves to death but never lost their humour.
他们累死累活地干活,但却从没有丢掉幽默感。