我设法求得一位开车路过的人让我搭车。

I managed to beg a lift from a passing motorist.

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我招呼了一辆路过的出租车。

I hailed a passing taxi.

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我们路过此地，所以想来问候一声。

We were passing through, so we thought we'd come and say hello.

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Goncourt, one of the writers, the Goncourts, the one who hadn't died yet, was no friend of ordinary people, but there's an amazing scene in his memoirs when he's down by the Hotel de Ville and he sees these women chained together, being walked around, and he says, "What, where are they going?"

龚古尔,龚古尔两兄弟都是作家,当时还活着的那一个,和平头百姓从来合不来,但在他的回忆录里有这样惊人的一幕,他路过市政厅的时候,看见一些被锁链串成一列的妇女们,正在被游街,他就问,"怎么,她们这是要去哪"

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