他和他们一起玩，输了一些钱，但当钟敲12点时，一切都从他的视线中消失了。
He played with them and lost some of his money, but when it struck twelve, everything vanished from his sight.
为了使对方得到答案，他们竟发明了一套完整的密码系统：坐在右边的一位，需要知道第五题的答案时，他就用铅笔在桌子上轻轻敲五下，坐在左边的一位回敲两次——表示答案是B。
One kid would tap his pencil lightly five times indicating he needed the answer to number 5.
有人敲了一下墙壁，他应声回敲。
他在那样的情形下呆着不动，并且也许会一直呆到天明，如果那只挂钟没有敲那一下？报一刻或报半点的一下。
He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one — the half or quarter hour.
他总是喜欢一个个的把他们堆起来，在用不同的方法把他们统统敲倒。
He likes to stack them up and find different ways to knock them down, she said.
当我逐渐长大而不能与我的兄弟共居一个卧室时，他在地面上敲入新的木桩，用来测量新建房的地基。
When I became too old to share a bedroom with my brother, he pounded wooden stakes into the ground to measure the new foundation.
这时，杰克听到一声闷响，头上一疼，有人用一根球棒或棍子敲中他的头。
Then he felt and heard a crack. Someone had swiped at his head with a bat or stick.
他把手指合拢在一起，轻轻地敲了敲，然后伸手从托盘上提起了一大串葡萄。
He tapped his fingers together and reached out to pluck a large grape from a tray.
他做矿工的时间太久了，以至于他可以凭直觉找到煤矿并用十字镐的一次简单回转把它敲松。
He had been a miner for so long, that he could intuitively locate the coal and loosen it with a single swing of a pick-axe.
他想要敲我一笔，却没想到我很了解宝石。他开始上下打量我。
He was ready to make a fool of me, but I know my stones. He looked me up and down.
去年他在一个电视转播的市政厅会议上指责巴拉克•奥巴马象敲“皮纳塔一样”“打击华尔街”，当时引起很多人关注。
Last year he turned heads when he accused Barack Obama at a televised town-hall meeting of “whacking” Wall Street “like a piñata”.
后来他去敲车库门，而他的朋友表现得有一点困惑。
Finally he goes and knocks on the garage door and his friend appears looking a little confused.
26年前的一个周六，当阿列克谢·帕基特诺夫敲完俄罗斯方块游戏程序的最后几个代码时，他根本想不到这个不起眼的视频游戏将成为俄罗斯最引人入胜的出口产品。
When Alexey Pajitnov put the finishing touches on Tetris 26 years ago Saturday, he had no way of knowing his modest video game would become Russia's most entertaining export.
可是他说如果吹了风那就会起变化，所以我就把棺木的一边敲松，又盖上了土；不是靠林惇那边，滚他的！
— he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change if the air blew on it, and so I struck one side of the coffin loose, and covered it up: not Linton's side, damn him!
我只是想最后敲他一记，因为当他再回来时，他已经开悟了，我哪里还能再训斥他啊。
I just wished to give him one last smack over the head, for when he returns he will be enlightened and I will not be able to reprimand him again.
“每敲五下按键就会出现一个错误，”他说道，“我根本无法忍受。”
“Every five keystrokes would have a typo, ” he said. “I just couldn’t tolerate that.”
他说他已经敲侧门15分钟了，我想Sarah一定是没听到，那会她正在楼上打扫卧室。
He said he had knocked at the side door with his knuckles for a quarter of an hour.
一个家伙正在看报纸，他的妻子走到他身后，用一只煎锅敲他的后脑勺。
A guy is reading his paper when his wife walks up behind him and smacks him on the back of the head with a frying pan.
那天大约是早上七点，我来到海登家，“梆梆”地敲着他卧室的门。 一边敲一边喊着：“懒虫，该出发了，爷爷奶奶的车马上就要到了！”
I reached Hayden’s house at around seven in the morning and banged on his bedroom door.
记得有一次我在和一大群食人妖作战时，我的剑在敲其中一个脑袋时弄断了，于是我拎著那家伙的耳朵，把他抓起来当棍子把他的同伴们通通敲死。
I remember one time I was fighting this pack of trolls, and broke my sword on one of their skulls, so I grabbed him by the ears and used him like a club to bludgeon his friends to death.
昨天，一个乞丐来敲我的门，他向我讨要一顿饭外加一杯啤酒。
Yesterday a beggar knocked at my door. He asked me for a meal and a glass of beer.
我强迫自己再次敲他的门，告诉他这是一份多么精彰的报纸。
I forced myself to knock again and was able to tell him how great the paper was.
又是一拽，他惊喜地猛力一抽，然后把线收上来，捏紧鱼多刺的尾巴来敲在甲板上。
With an exultant yank he pulled in the line, grabbed the fish by its spiny tail and slammed it senseless against the deck.
一次摩拉·纳斯·鲁丁敲一位大马戏团经理的门，他说：“你必须看看我，我有精彩的表演！”
Once Mulla Nasrudin knocked at the door of the manager of a great circus, and he said: You have to look at me, I have a terrific act!
三天后他正在看报纸，妻子走到他身后，又用一只煎锅敲他的后脑勺。
Three days later he's reading his paper when she walks up behind him and smacks him on the back of the head again with the frying pan.
他还知道如何巧妙地进入面试的房间，用的是日本风格：礼仪专家说，必须敲三下门，不是一下，也不是两下。
He also knows how to finesse his way into an interview room, Japanese style: You must knock three times, etiquette experts say - not once, not twice.
他还知道如何巧妙地进入面试的房间，用的是日本风格：礼仪专家说，必须敲三下门，不是一下，也不是两下。
He also knows how to finesse his way into an interview room, Japanese style: You must knock three times, etiquette experts say - not once, not twice.
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