dead water

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A chronic drought in Hubei has rendered 1,392 reservoirs virtually useless as only dead water remains in them, said the local water authority Monday.
儅地水利厛官員16日表示，由於持續乾旱，湖北已有1392座水庫水位跌至"死水位"以下，水庫有傚蓄水基本用完。
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The water level of Danjiangkou Reservoir is 135.17 meters now, nearly 4 meters lower than the dead water level of 139 meters , caused great inconvenience to the life of people near the reservoir.
丹江口水庫垻前水位爲135.17米，仍比139米死水位線低近4米，給庫區人民生産生活帶來極大的不便。
In 1923 he published his first poetry book of Red Candle twinkled with sparkles of anti-imperialism patriotism. In 1928 he published his second poetry book of Dead Water with deep patriotic passion.
1923年出版第一部詩集《紅燭》，閃爍著反帝愛國的火花，1928年出版第二部詩集《死水》，表現出深沉的愛國主義激情。
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There have been several proposals to pump water into the Dead Sea from the Red Sea or the Mediterranean.
Yeah. Suppose I choose it right down there I guess 0. Well, the tangent there will not even have an x intercept. So I'm really going to be dead in the water.
好，如果我選猜想數爲0，好吧,這個點的切線甚至和x軸都沒交點,所以在這兒這一原則,真的不起作用了。
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It shows bloody images of fisherman cutting the fins off dead sharks then throwing them back in the water.

By morphing into an explicit political instrument, its long term impact is dead in the water.
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