With his left hand he groped for the knob, turned it, and pulled the door open.

他用左手摸索到门把手，转动把手，把门拉开。

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Each stillness or encapsulated space it is pulled out and expanded towards the exterior, searching for that open hole that connects your gaze to the sky.

每个静止或封闭空间都被拉出，向室外扩张，寻找空洞凝望天空。

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He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears.

他登上床，猛力扭开格子窗，一面拉，一面迸出不可抑制的热泪。

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He pulled hard on the restaurant door, forcing it open, and stumbled with his tattered flowers into the dark realm between the door and the velvet drapes that had been hung to keep the cold from sweeping in over diners at the front of the room.

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