I've seen him sit all day on a bench and never a bite pass his lips, and in the evening, when I invited him to dinner - restaurant two blocks away - have him say, 'Too much trouble, old man.

我曾见他在一张长凳上坐过一整天，一点东西都没进嘴，到了晚上我请他吃饭——只须走两段街就到了馆子，他却回答说：‘太麻烦，老兄，给我买盒烟就行了！

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Carmen Elcira had seen lately how old age had taken its bite out of him, and she had thought often that he was nearing the end, but even so, she felt unprepared when she found him like that.

最近一段时间，卡门·艾尔茜拉眼看着衰老一天天地啃噬着他，常常想到父亲正在走向生命的终点，可是即便如此，当这一天来临时，她还是觉得毫无准备。

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Above, the moon takes a "bite" out of the sun's disk over the roughly 2, 500-year-old temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion.

如图，在苏尼翁海岬约2500年前的海神庙上空，月亮咬了太阳一小口。

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So nationwide, these low down payment sales, like the subprime of old, are already coming back to bite the hand that fed them.

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The venue chosen was Old Trafford, where - with their second bite at the cherry - Rapid progressed courtesy of a 1-0 win.

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In fact, the 53-year-old chairman of the offshore-based Ace Limited is taking a bite out of such U.S. insurance giants as Chubb, Hartford Financial Services and the American International Group (AIG).

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