A sliver of light showed under the door.

门底下现出一丝亮光。

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To enjoy Rabelais, he advised a plain country toilet, "a little outhouse in the corn patch, with a crescent sliver of light coming through the door".

如果你要阅读《拉伯雷》，他建议你找个简陋的农村茅房，“在玉米地的茅房里，新月的银色月光透着门缝照了进来。”

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Instead, with pure white light and high-tech photo equipment that can capture a sliver of time as brief as a 1/8000th of a second, he isolates his subjects' essences.

相反的，他只是以白色为背景，用高速摄影设备在1/8000秒的快门速度下拍摄，这样就分离出了主题的精髓之处。

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It's far easier for a CEO to think about building up the business when he or she can actually see a sliver of light on the horizon.

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Also, it only absorbs a sliver of the light spectrum, but the researchers are looking to other forms of the wonder element which could increase that range.

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