Haze opened the door and released the thumb and then slammed the door again."A howl arose that would rend almost any heart."

海斯把门打开，让他把拇指抽回去，之后又,砰地把门关上了，撕心裂肺的嚎叫声“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They like to--when they're computing the investment yield, they want to be completely honest and not use any rules of thumb.

当他们计算投资收益率的时候,他们需要完全精确,而非用经验公式

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They might suck their thumb, seek out a blanket or so on.

吮大拇指，或是去寻找毯子之类的。

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That's actually a really good rule of thumb.

那实际上是一个好的经验法则。

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There are nine keys for my left thumb alone so I'm kind of switching between these on the back here and many others, and because of that I can go very high and I'll just demonstrate that.

我的左手拇指就要控制九个音键,通过按动后部,和其他地方的音键,我就能吹出很高的音,我现在就来演示

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