On a visit 150 years ago Mark Twain wrote wryly of the three-millennia-old city: “She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies.”

150年前马克.吐温（Mark Twain ）访问大马士革时幽默的评论这座三千年的古城：“她已经见识了一千个帝国的枯骨，而在她消亡之前，它会再看到另外一千个帝国的坟墓。”

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The following means of making a living are, according to New York City statues, illegal: the skinning of horses or cows, the growing of ragweed, and the burning of bones.

根据纽约自由雕像的宣言，下列谋生方式是不合法的：剥牛皮或马皮，种植豚草以及焚烧尸体。

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Her destination was Erlian, a Chinese border city, whose main road is decorated with GREen statues of dinosaurs in honor of dinosaur bones found nearby.

她的目的地是中国边境城市二连浩特，这个城市的道路两旁装饰着为纪念在附近发现的恐龙化石而雕刻的绿色恐龙雕像。

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And with the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host, The Moral Instruments: City of Bones (August 23rd) unfairly bears the burden of proving that female-friendly young-adult literary adaptations can in fact succeed aside from The Hunger Games and Twilight.

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After the collapse of a communal grave near the center of the city it was decided to transfer all the bones to one vast ossuary.

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The quaint conveyances also stand out for the inordinate number of accidents and the millions of dollars annually the city pays out to settle lawsuits for broken bones, severed feet and bad bruises caused when 19th-century technology runs headlong into 21st-century city traffic and congestion.

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