设想一下,一群人围坐在一张红木桌子旁,达成一致意见。第二天的结果无外乎两种:要么增加同胞手头的钱,要么减少他们持有的钱。
A group of men sit about a mahogany table and agree; the next day their countrymen have that much more money to spend, that much less.
他们在活的七鳃鳗前释放它们死去的同胞的气息或者一种乙醇制剂。
They exposed live ones to either the smell of their dead brethren or an ethanol control.
本杰明和他的同胞们在想法设法筹钱,他们在网站上加了文字广告,还在销售一种“斯瓦西里钟”,这种时钟是从天亮之后开始计时的,而不是从午夜开始。
Benjamin and his compatriots are trying to raise money through text ads on the site and sales of a "Swahili clock", which tells the time in terms of hours after dawn, rather than hours after midnight.
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