The first street we tried turned out to be a dead end.
我们想走的头一条路结果是条死胡同。
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Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.
在第一批载人火箭开始飞行之前,西拉诺已经死了,且已被掩埋了整整三个世纪。
3
Being too keen to win can have dangerous consequences: remember that Pheidippides, the first marathon runner, dropped dead seconds after saying: "Rejoice, we conquer!"