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die

/daɪ/

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variant 1: died
variant 2: dying

1 · verb

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

死亡；死；亡

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This afternoon, the World Health Organization confirmed three thousand new cases of coronavirus, among which a hundred people died.

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今天下午，世界卫生组织证实了3000个新型冠状病毒病例，其中有100人死亡。

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