He was up a ladder sawing off the tops of his apple trees.

他在梯子上锯苹果树的树冠。

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I climbed up a ladder.

我爬上了梯子。

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He tried to climb up a ladder to get into his house through a window.

他试着爬上梯子想从窗户钻进去。

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The consolation is they're killing people at the top too so they're going to so when you do get a job in a financial institution there will be more spaces above you on the ladder to move up.

慰藉就是，他们同样也在高层解雇人,所以他们将会,当你在一家金融机构找到工作后,你会有很大的晋升空间。

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One evening in April last year, when Mr Wu and his wife were watching television in their bedroom upstairs, police climbed up a ladder, through a window and took him away.

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Police decided to send a team of SWAT officers up a ladder in the middle of the crane "to try to reestablish communications with him and to, hopefully, safely get him down from the crane so we could get him whatever help he needed, " he said.

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So while in India, our protagonist scrambles up a ladder of fantasy and make-believe to take on his tormentors as a slumdog millionaire, in America, our protagonist ascends a ladder given to him by his own society and its people--given to him as reward for a mutiny that was thought to ennoble not merely the protagonist and His Kind, but all of America.

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