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death

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n. 死；死亡；死神；毁灭
n. (Death)人名；(英)迪阿思

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They break routines, because autopilot is death.

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.

It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.

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.

What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.

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?.

Americans have always argued about the death penalty.

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.

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.

There seems to be more of a taboo (禁忌) about talking about money than about death

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.

Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming

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.

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

Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.

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.

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?

In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor.

In the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.

Of the 36 states that allow the death penalty, 30 permit the execution of minors.

So if something happens to their food source, they have a way of not starving to death until they find more algae to eat.

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.

The young murderer remained on death row for ten years while his lawyer appealed to the governor.

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.

Premature death rates resulting from smoking have declined.

The leading causes of death in this age group are also changing.

That pushed flu from the third leading cause of death to the fifth.

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.

On the other hand, the death rate from flu dropped from 7.4% in 2000 to 4.1% in 2014.

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.

In 2000, the top five causes of death for centenarians were heart disease, stroke, flu, cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease.

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.

But because this population is getting larger, the number of deaths in this group is also increasing.

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.

Don't risk injury or death beacuse of over-confidence or lack of knowledge.

Consistently, research shows that communicating with others promotes health, whereas social isolation is linked to stress, disease, and early death.

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.

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.

Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.

Flamingos, however, are the only species that actually makes life in the midst of all that death.

Her time-lapse videos of the revivals look like someone playing a tape of the plant's death in reverse.

It is becoming increasingly clear that retail reinvention isn't a simple battle to the death between bricks and clicks.

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.

The death of a small child would have no effect upon the income of the family.

Three hundred years after her death, Merian will be celebrated at an international symposium in Amsterdam this June.

Through careful preparation, the death toll from a super tropical storm in November 2007 was less than 3, 500.

Brooks carries this through to the death of one of his characters.

But pronouncing the death of class is too early.

Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.

Had the governments and scientists not worked together, aids-related deaths would not have fallen since their highest in 2005.

Hannah's place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death.

"I knew it was the difference between life and death," says Taylor.

Now it occurred to him that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.

One of the executives gathered at the Aspen Institute for a day-long leadership workshop using the works of Shakespeare was discussing the role of brutus in the death of julius caesar.

Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.

She had requested the community to tum it into a museum upon her death.

Still, the people who exercise 150 minutes a week did pretty well, too, lowering their death risk by 14%.

The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5%.

The death of Russians may result in a shrinking population, which would damage its economic future.

The miracle of 1511 took place during six freezing works called the winter of death.

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

The study showed that people who put in 300 minutes a week of exercise had a 20% lower risk of death due to heart disease.

This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney failures and death.

Two of the authors of the review also made a study published in 2014 which/that showed a mere five to 10 minutes a day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all causes.

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern reader shave little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

And the ban on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death – as some have done.

By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides.

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death.

The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market.