There was a long, pregnant silence, which Mrs. Madrigal punctuated by reaching for the cheque.

马德里加尔太太伸手去拿那支票，打破了那一阵长时间的、耐人寻味的沉默。

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If you're thinking about reaching for another biscuit to get you through the working day, think again．

如果你想再拿一块饼干来帮你度过工作日，那就重新考虑一下。

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She whirled suddenly, one arm reaching for something near her side but failed, and it made her stumble.

她突然转动身子，一只胳膊伸向身边，似乎想抓住什么但没抓到，这让她绊了一跤。

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Reaching for a cell phone when it's going off, you're nine times more likely to get into an accident than normally driving."

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So, when he was reaching down to the right, for example, the yellow circle up here bended green.

这样，当它去触摸，比如右边黄色圆圈的时候，黄色的圆圈变成了绿色。

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With the United States quite isolated, not reaching out to Canada and Mexico, which is one thing we need to be doing for energy and economic reasons.

而美国则被孤立了，不和加拿大，墨西哥打交道，事实上这是我们现在该做的,为了能源问题和经济发展。

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As investors have learned time and time again, reaching for yield can be a costly mistake.

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And so the cross-strait agreements may prove to be the more far-reaching for Taiwan.

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As it is, we quickly got tired of reaching for our tablet to pause the music.

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