Once there was a peasant. His land was beside a reed bed which was often infested with the beasts.

从前有一个农夫，他的地在一片芦苇地的旁边。

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He worried that his crops might be ruined by the beasts, so he would take the bow and arrow with him and scouted around the area between the crop land and the reed bed.

那芦苇地里常常有野兽出没，他担心自己的庄稼被野兽毁坏了，就总是拿着弓箭到庄稼地和芦苇地交界的地方去来回巡视。

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At the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research they had people go to bed a couple of hours earlier than usual every night for a week.

在沃尔特·里德陆军研究所里，实验对象每天早睡几个小时，这样持续了一周。

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"Part of the reed bed had been burnt and there were substantial areas of rushbeds and saltmarsh vegetation, " he said.

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The rescue of a rare bird from a "ferociously burning" reed bed has been described as being "like a scene from Thunderbirds" by a wildlife trust.

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