He's a wine merchant, so most evenings end with a bottle or two, and he often jokes that he hasn't been stone-cold sober since he left school in 1982.

他是一名酒商，所以大部分的晚上都要喝上一瓶或者两瓶，他经常开玩笑说自从他1982年离开学校后从来没有酒醒过。

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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

他们饮酒，赞美金，银，铜，铁，木，石所造的神。

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In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

到了早晨，拿八醒了酒，他的妻将这些事都告诉他，他就魂不附体，身僵如石头一般。

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The winery took almost four years to build because it involved dynamiting into the hill behind it to create two 3, 500-square-foot stone wine caves.

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The old city, called a Tera has been beautifully maintained, its narrow alleyways dotted with pristine stone archways, inviting bed and breakfasts and quaint wine tasting cellars.

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For guidance on how to build one of these boozy masterpieces, I turned to Krystina Castella and Terry Lee Stone, authors of Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine, and Beer (Quirk, 2010), essential reading for the tippling baker.

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