Most of them, after all, had not been at the battle and had only heard of the massacre at second hand.

他们中的大多数毕竟没有亲历那场战争而只是间接听说过那场大屠杀。

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I heard it at second hand, when his father, who saw the fire, told my mother, who told me.

我是经过第二道手听来的，他父亲看到了这次失火，告诉了我母亲，我母亲又告诉了我。

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A second hand car dealer will always look at the bodywork rather than the engine.

二手车销售商总是查看车身而不是引擎。

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So in other words, if you live with a smoker, you really are at very high risk of demonstrating high levels of second-hand smoke exposure."

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Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

显然是某种启示就要来临;,显然第二次降临已很接近。

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For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.

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The BBC's Sammy Darko in Accra says not everyone can afford a new refrigerator, so the used ones are still in demand at the second hand shops that litter the streets of the capital's suburbs.

BBC: Ghana bans second-hand fridges

There are enough new cars (or at least second-hand ones imported from Japan) to gridlock Kingston's rush-hour traffic.

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