I would be waiting every day with bated breath wondering when the ax was going to fall.
我每天都屏息等待,不知道什么时候斧子会掉下来。
Since our mailman mailing list software would overwrite its own configuration file with new data every few minutes, it was a prime candidate to fall prey to the scenario I describe above.
由于每隔几分钟我们的邮差邮件列表软件就会用新数据覆盖它自己的配置文件,因此它最有可能发生上面所描述的情况。
The farmers who filled half of the road with feed corn laid out to dry every fall are absent and blocks of nearby small businesses, homes and factories have been reduced to piles of bricks.
过去每年秋天农民们会占用一半的道路晾晒玉米饲料,而如今已踪影全无; 附近的小店、房屋和工厂也已变成一片瓦砾。
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