The man arrived for the ceremony with patched jackets and faded jeans that the average person would save for mowing the lawn in his garden at the weekend.

他穿着打补丁的夹克和褪了色的牛仔裤来参加婚礼，一般人只会在周末修剪自家花园的草坪时才穿这些衣服。

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He likened the routine of evening raids to “mowing the lawn.”

他把这次夜间突袭行动比作了“收割草坪”。

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I always put this off because I am tired after mowing the lawn.

——我每次剪完草坪就累了，所以这件事一拖再拖。

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The point is that this cliched suburban life of mowing the lawn, Humbert is a foreigner--into something you can laugh at, something you can enjoy, something that you can apply the knight's move to.

这段话的意思是乡下人民这种修剪草坪，亨伯特是个外国人），变成了一种你感到开心,你很享受，你可以用迂回前进理论理解的事情。

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That extra work may not be as obvious as doing the dishes or mowing the lawn.

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As he said, his first job at 14 was mowing the lawn for his grandfather in Houston.

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