Feeble steps were heard on the stairs, and an old man, tall and frail, odorous of pipe smoke.

楼梯上响起了微弱的脚步声，一个病怏怏、浑身烟臭、满嘴烟渍的高个子老头儿犹犹豫豫地走了进来。

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The lock creaked now from inside, and an old man opened the door.

锁从里面发出嘎吱嘎吱的声音，一位老人打开了门。

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"I beg your pardon, "said the learned man,"it is an old habit with me."

“请原谅，”学者说，“这是我的老习惯了。”

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One day, while Giovani was looking out his window, he saw an old man in a black cape walking in the garden.

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On the stair leading up into the disinfectant-smelling twilight of a rooming house, she saw an old man huddled, shaking with grief she couldn't hear.

登上梯子，在一间散发着,消毒水气味的昏暗公寓里，她看到了一个老人缩成一团，以一种他无法感受的哀伤颤抖着。

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We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell I guess across the night, eastward over the plains where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking towards us with the word and would arrive any minute and make us silent.

我们在美国的最高处大声叫喊,我想整个夜晚，在东部平原,随时可能有一个白发老人,向我们走来,让我们安静。

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The Pope is an old man, subject to the diseases of old men.

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With the New Democrats now led by a former Liberal, and the Liberals by an old NDP man, the answer to Mr Topp may be to merge the two parties into one.

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The oldest victim was a 61-year-old man, the youngest an unborn fetus and investigators say almost all the killings were gang-related.

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