dead earth

Awake and sing, you who lie in the dust! Let your dew fall, O Lord, like a dew of light, and the earth will throw out her dead.

睡在尘埃中的人们都要苏醒歌咏，因为你的朝露是晶莹的朝露，大地将抛出幽灵。

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He was pulling dead roots from the dusty earth.

他正在从土中拔出枯死的根茎.

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As long as they move and grow, the Earth is not dead.

只要他们还在移动,还在生长, 地球就不会消亡.

英汉非文学 - 科幻

The collapses is a physical geology phenomenon refering to the high and precipitous slope rock mass or the soil body, under the effect of dead weight and exogenic force, suddenly separated from the mother rock ( earth) body and violently came down from the high place.

崩塌是指陡峻边坡岩体或土体在自重和外力作用下，突然脱离母岩（土）体而突然猛烈的由高处崩落的物理地质现象。

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Soaring prices didn't scare people away from getting their dead family members into earth though.

飞涨的价格并不曾吓退想使已故亲人入土为安的人们。

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