With entertainments and parties, the hours, the days, the weeks passed like lightning.

在娱乐和聚会中，一个钟头又一个钟头，一天又一天，一个星期又一个星期，像闪电似地过去了。

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He looked for the dramatic, like the sunset in this painting, and painted it with great verve.

他追求画面的表现力—就像这幅画里的落日—而且创作时充满激情。

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The prisoners tried to barter with the guards for items like writing paper and books.

囚犯们试着从看守那里换取稿纸和书之类的东西。

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and insanity incites to action. With no definite plan and acting like a madman, Murlock ran quickly to the wall.

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And it's possible that the very idea of a Puritan poet presented Milton with what may have felt like an insoluble conflict.

成为清教徒诗人的想法可能,让弥尔顿感到一些不可调和的冲突。

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The other way is that like, they facilitate us in having like little meetings with professors and that kind of things,

同时，学校还会帮助我们邀请教授和我们一起开小型会议，

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They recognize no distinction between ties with autocracies like Egypt and Jordan on the one hand and ties with democracies like the US on the other.

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The London Eye opened in 2000 and started the trend, which continues with the High Roller and with attractions like the smaller 360 Pensacola Beach, a 200-foot-high observation wheel overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, which just opened in early July.

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In Sicily pawn lending began in the early 16th century with two banks, one dealing with precious items like jewellery and silverware and the other with ordinary objects like farm implements.

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