At one chateau, as we descended a narrow spiral staircase, we both remarked-almost simultaneously-that the staircase sagged inward toward its central support beam.

在一个城堡里，我们正沿着很窄的螺旋楼梯往下走，这时，螺旋楼梯突然向中心支撑柱子方向凹陷，我们几乎不约而同地喊了起来。

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"Excuse me," she said to a man at the bottom of the staircase, "but where have we landed?"

“请问，”她向站在舷梯下面的一个男人问道：“我们这是到哪儿了？”

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The survivors' staircase at the World Trade Center was moved to its permanent spot on Dec. 11, 2008.

2008年12月11日，在世贸中心的幸存者阶梯被移到了一个固定地点。

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He found two skulls of this animal at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,in southern Utah.

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Clad in a gray chalk-striped suit and open-necked shirt, the 45-year-old metals mogul and New Jersey Nets owner camped out at the foot of the entry staircase and greeted his guests, a stylish swirl of art collectors, writers and Russian expats.

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Despite the slender width, Mr. Turner said the rooms at either end of the staircase don't feel small, and room for room, the spaces are as large as most of those in Manhattan apartments.

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He matured and developed, listened and learned and, most of all, began to realise that his fate lay not as the jovial, grinning quiz show captain, the subject of wistful glances from dear old Sue Barker, but rather in the wood-panelled office at the top of the Ibrox marble staircase.

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