The great Caesar landing in Egypt fell flat on his face in the wet shore. you can imagine the consternation of his officers, until the great and resourceful man shouted, Africa I've got you!

伟大的恺撒大帝登陆埃及时脸朝地直挺挺地跌倒在潮湿的海滩上——你可以想象得到他手下的官兵是怎样的惊惶失措一一直至后来这个充满雄韬伟略的男子大声呼喊：“非洲，我把你弄到手了！ ”！

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And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore.

又有些人的渴慕只是平缓的溪流，在蜿曲之间迷失了自己，而闲荡地到达海边。

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I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.

我把我们村子的位置指给他看。村子就坐落在距离教堂一英里多远的平坦河岸上，四周矗立着赤杨树和截梢树。

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Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.

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Meanwhile the Israeli army, caught flat-footed both on the Golan Heights and on the border with Lebanon, will have to shore up the border, at least in the north, to make it physically impassable.

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