Bush joked, saying that all he can report was that it was a size 10 shoe, then calmly took questions.

布什开玩笑说，他能跟大家说的就是，那是一个10码的鞋，接着平静地回答问题。

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The scientists contend that Bush ducked because his brain’s action pathway categorized the trajectory of the shoe as a threat well before his perception pathway began to track its flight.

科学家们认为布什之所以躲闪是因为他的大脑行动通道在视觉通道开始跟踪鞋子的飞行之前就把鞋子的轨迹归为一种威胁。

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Then their parents will start talking about the hero Muntadhir al-Zaidi, who threw his shoe at George W. Bush during his unannounced farewell visit.

接着父母就会给他们讲英雄扎伊迪在布什的告别之旅时向他扔鞋的故事。

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It appears that, unlike the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq where President Bush successfully ducked a couple of loafers, neither of these acts was intended as a protest.

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In Gaza hundreds of posters of Mr Abbas with a black X across his face appeared in public places, and relatives of the victims of the winter's military operation were throwing shoes at his picture, a reference to the shoe hurled in contempt at the then American president, George Bush, in Iraq.

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As our global community transitions from the ill-fated presidency of George W. Bush to the much-anticipated presidency of Barack Obama, we can take comfort knowing the gigantic imprint of history's "shoe" will leave a much more humiliating mark on the Bush legacy than a pair of misguided size 10 Iraqi shoes thrown in his general direction.

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