We stagger from our rooms in various states of undress to the sound of fire engines screaming round the corner, guaranteeing we are all wide awake.

我们穿着各式各样的衣服，摇摇晃晃地从房间里走出来，听到消防车在拐角处呼啸的声音，这保证了我们都是清醒的。

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How do we know, for example, that the stars are really huge balls of fire like the Sun and very far away?

比如说，我们怎么知道恒星真的是像太阳一样巨大的火球，而且离我们很远呢？

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Although we can fire lawyers the fact someone has a lawyer usually means that they are actually in need of that lawyer and as such are pretty likely to listen to their advice.

尽管我们可以解雇自己的律师，但事实是，如果你雇了一个律师，通常意味着你确实需要那位律师的帮助，所以几乎都会听从他的建议。

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" They just opened up fire on us. I heard the captain saying on the VHF radio we are unarmed."

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

Amazon's colour tablet, which has been out for a year and selling very well in the US, has been slow to arrive in the UK, though we are now getting the Fire HD.

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With the Kindle Fire we are back to the toy-boy ethos and army boot black plastic in a pull tear fast food carton.

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Chief of the New York Fire Department on the day Daniel Nigro told The Conspiracy Files that the fire service does not need to ask the permission of the owner when making decisions relating to buildings that are on fire: "We are in charge and the decision will be the fire chiefs and his alone, " he said.

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