Use a swing-arm floor lamp instead, or mount a swing-arm wall lamp above the headboard.

用摇臂式的落地灯，或在床头板上安装一个摇臂式壁灯。

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Swing a lamp from the ceiling.

请将灯悬在天花板上。

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When the lamp-lighter knocked against them, or the wind blew through the cathedral, they would swing back and forth like pendulums.

当掌灯人碰到那些油灯，或者风吹进教堂的时候，油灯就会像钟摆似的来回摇摆。

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Thus ensconced, the Assads, like the Qaddafis of Libya and other thugs in the worst rights pits of the world, have made their hard bargain: The only exit from rule will come if or when the rulers swing from lamp posts.

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Given the oligarchs' unpopularity, it was politically expedient for Mr Putin to swing one from a lamp-post.

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Shortly after the movie started, they and others noticed the emergency exit door to the audience's right swing open, spilling light from an outside lamp into the darkened theater.

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