There a crowd huddled around three musicians in front of a gaudy decorative altar-we had arrived at a wake.

一个花哨的装饰过的祭坛前有三个乐手，人群挤在他们周围—我们已经来到守灵地。

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Emily is paid no wages and the telephone company reckons it saves three million dollars a year by employing her instead of a crowd of expensive, high-maintenance human-beings.

由于不用向艾米丽支付任何薪资，该家电话公司估计每年能省下三百万美元的费用，因为有了她就不用雇用一群昂贵的、高生活费的人类。

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Now a small fire department in California is tackling all three problems with a smartphone app which relies on the idea of crowd-sourcing.

目前，加州的一个消防小队正借助一个基于众包理念的智能手机应用来解决三大难题。

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In the course of one concert, we play for a larger live crowd than all but I think two or three orchestras in the entire country play for, over the entire year.

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To take one example, a kilometre from the Bagram airbase, and just off the main road, a crowd gathered recently as the bodies of three Afghan soldiers were carefully dragged clear.

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When England A played a three-day match in Chittagong, a crowd in excess of 32, 000 squeezed into a 25, 000-capacity stadium.

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The society that honours him is so fondly regarded that two nationally known bluesmen, Sam Myers and Anson Funderburgh, agreed to come to Helena recently to perform a Sunday night show featuring more than three hours of music before a far smaller crowd than they could draw in the big cities, and for a fraction of their standard fee.

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