One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing boiling water down on enemies attacking a castle.

据说这样的用法起源于古代，当敌人袭击一座城堡时，城堡里的人会将滚烫的开水泼向敌人。

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One story says the Archimedes made a burning mirror to set fire to the Roman ships which were attacking Syracuse.

的翻译是：一个故事说阿基米德做一个灼烧的镜子放火到攻击西勒鸠斯的罗马船。

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One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies attacking a castle.

有一种说法称，这种表达起源于这样一个传统：当敌人袭击一座城堡时，城堡中的人就会将滚烫的开水泼向敌人。

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One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing boiling water down on enemies attacking a castle.

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He says, "This book tells a harsh and forbidding story and makes one wonder just exactly what its relation to truth is.

他这样写道：,“这书讲的是一个既冷血,又令人恐惧的故事,将人置于一个总想知道,它与现实关联的状态“

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What Wright gives us here is an account of the two parts of this story that says this is an account of not one childhood, but two.

这部分怀特让我们了解到,他讲的不是一个童年,而是两个。

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The third story is a deflationary one, and says that the economic recovery is something of a Potemkin village, kept intact only by dint of central-bank and fiscal stimulus.

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"I think there were more, " says Harder, recalling a story one of the Manson girls once told him.

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One last story for the file: So do you, he says.

NEWYORKER: Bullfighting