Just out of impulse, he shot the duck in the head and killed it.

他一时冲动，朝鸭子的头开了一枪，把它打死了。

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We had nothing to go by. It was a shot in the dark, but it turned out right.

我们是没有根据的，只不过瞎猜，可是结果却猜对了。

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The basic unit of communication will no longer be typed out in e-mails. It will be shot in pictures and shown on video.

通讯的基本单元将不再是打印出来的电子邮件，而是光鲜的图片和视频展示。

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In later life, Mr Walker enjoyed recounting the story of how, as a surgeon prised the armour-piercing bullet from his ankle at the RAF Hospital, it shot out and hit the ceiling.

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"It was a tough lie and I didn't know if it would come out hot or soft, so I protected it and played a real safe shot but it didn't really get out and I had to chip again, " he said.

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'Twas not the case at all, however, in a recent reprogramming effort at a Virginia ATM, where a clever individual somehow fooled the computer into thinking it was dispersing five-dollar bills while it actually shot out twenties.

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