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The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at th

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Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. 让伟大的神灵，在我们头顶掀起这场可怕的骚动。现在，让他们找到他们的敌人吧。 Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee

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The operators of a glass-bottomed walkway clinging to a cliff 3,500 feet above sea level in central China want to reassure visitors that they are quite safe.Despite the cracks in the glass. 建造于中国中部海拔3500英尺的悬崖上的一条玻璃

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ISLAMABAD, April 26 (Xinhua) -- At least 11 people including a child were killed and 40 others injured on Friday night in a bomb blast that targeted a political meeting in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, local media and police said. Accordi

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A glass pane at Tower Bridge's new transparent walkway 140ft above the River Thames, has smashed after a visitor dropped a bottle of beer. 英国泰晤士河上的高约140英尺（约43米）的伦敦塔桥，2周之前开放了新景点--玻璃人行

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Chapter 5 (an excerpt) It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the life

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In July 2011, a decade after the first ones opened, there were 326 Apple stores. 2011年，第一批苹果零售店开业10年之后，全世界已经有317家苹果零售店。 The biggest was in London's Covent Garden, the tallest in Tokyo's Ginza.