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• 然而，他的生命并没有就此消失：他呼出的气变成了风和云，他的声音变成了雷。

  rán'ér tā de shēngmìng bìng méiyǒu jiùcǐ xiāoshī tā hūchū de qì biànchéng le fēng hé yún tā de shēngyīn biànchéng le léi

  Yet his life did not simply end there: the breath he exhaled became the wind and clouds, and his voice became thunder.

  From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• 一个月后，当地报纸登出了陆遥的文章，标题是：“一百年前的那场风浪并不存在”。

  yí gè yuè hòu dāngdì bàozhǐ dēng chū le Lù Yáo de wénzhāng biāotí shì yìbǎi nián qián de nà cháng fēnglàng bìng bù cúnzài

  A month later the local paper printed Lu Yao's article under the headline: "The storm of a hundred years ago never happened."

  From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

• 在他看来，能不能成功并不是最重要的，重要的是面对这么大的对手，她从来没有低过头。

  zài tā kànlai néng bù néng chénggōng bìng bú shì zuì zhòngyào de zhòngyào de shì miànduì zhème dà de duìshǒu tā cónglái méiyǒu dī guò tóu

  In his view, whether she could succeed was not what mattered most; what mattered was that, facing such a vast opponent, she never once bowed her head.

  From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8