ALLEN: "What is it,Mister Benny?" BENNY: "Oh,Mister Allen,have you heard that they're making women's bathing suits out of spun glass?"

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This is Virgil: "He should sing thin - spun lays and he should be content feeding his fat sheep."

这是维吉尔的诗：“他哀唱着纤细的抒情诗“,“喂着肥硕的羊儿，他无比满足“

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Now you could do a similar sort of thing, but instead of having a candle, you have a paddle wheel, and the paddle wheel is spun by a weight that's dropping from here to here.

那接下来可以做一件类似的事，但不再是蜡烛，我们将它换成一个桨轮，桨轮末端拴一个重物,它可以从这掉落到这。

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and slits the thin-spun life.

它扯裂了我们羸弱的生命。

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