Wood moved slowly, but not equally, with its mixture of springwood and summerwood, straight and wavy grain, knots, rings and imperfections. And it would always go the way it was naturally inclined.

慢工出细活，依照春木或夏木、直纹或曲纹、节疤、年轮以及自身瑕疵的不同，各种木材都会被物尽其用，并顺其自然。

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We could not lightly draw water after dark, for there were snakes swimming in the pools or clustering in knots around their brinks.

天黑之后，取水都有困难，因为不仅水里有蛇，水源边上也有三五成群的蛇。

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But it turns out that a real net is called a net not because of the strands but because of the knots.

所有这些之所以叫做网络是因为真正的网就是一些连接节点的线。

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We headed South from Treasure in the direction of Marsh Harbor, the largest town and capital of the Abacos, running at about 25 knots in water not much more than ten feet deep.

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"We should toss away old and rigid attitudes that are not good for fixing the mental knots and rallying people's minds", the editorial noted.

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And when you look at it from that perspective, it makes a lot of sense to me that they are conservatives who really tied up the knots about this because they understand not just what this is about for right now.

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