Outside a small store we sat down on a low wooden bench and, sheltered by a high wall, we communicated partly by writing on the ground with a bottle top.

我们在一家小店外的木头长凳上坐下，外面有高墙挡风。我们的交流部分要借助用啤酒瓶盖在地上写字。

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Drop, cover, and hold — Take cover under a sturdy desk, table, or bench, or against an inside wall, and hold on.

蹲下，寻找掩护，抓牢——利用写字台、桌子或者长凳下的空间，或者身子紧贴内部承重墙作为掩护，然后双手抓牢固定物体。

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To dine, he lowers a plank from the wall, his flower-stand becomes a support and his stairs become a bench.

吃饭时，他从墙上放下木板，他的花台成为支架，楼梯成为凳子。

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Of course it is, he told himself, sitting down on an old wooden bench against the wall of the station, preparing to kill some time.

NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho

By midafternoon, I was sweating all over and my pulse was racing, so I decided to rest on a long bench by the wall, but I tripped and fell before I could reach it.

NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry

Second, Billy Beane would be much quicker to bench underperforming players than is typical on Wall Street.

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