in the dust

基本解释

The results showed that a hole in the dust follows Neptune around in its orbit.
模拟结果表明，尘埃环在海王星的轨道边上形成了一个空洞。
I still remember how he fell when the Americans shot him, and I saw him clawing on the ground in the dust before his soul left his body.
我还记得他被美国人射中后是如何倒地的，我看到他在灵魂离开躯体之前，在地上的尘土中抓来抓去的样子。
I seemed to be seated by the head of my great, insulted Motherland, who lay there in the dust before me, disconsolate, shorn of her glory.
我似乎坐在我伟大的，被侮辱的祖国的最后一个位子上，而她在我眼前的尘埃中躺着，郁郁不欢地，光芒黯淡地。

Currently,the best explanation for the loss of methane is that it chemically reacts with dust in the atmosphere.
I find it again in the Christian tradition, when we do the... in Lent, like "You're from dust and to dust you will return."
在基督教传统中我发现，大斋节的传统,如“尘归尘土归土“之类“
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So in the second creation story beginning in Genesis 2:4, We read that the first human is formed when God fashions it from the dust of the earth or clay.
在《创世纪》第2章第4节开始的第二个创世故事，我们看到第一个人类形成,他上帝用尘土或黏土将人捏造成形。
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