Since the grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl.

因为爷爷打碎了一两个盘子，他的食物就被盛在一个木碗里。

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Sometimes we have forgotten something or broken a promise, so we need to explain with the word as a beginning.

有时候我们会忘记一些事情或者违背诺言，所以我们需要以话语解释作为开始。

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His watch had been broken a long time.

他的表已经坏了很久了。

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He objected. He said if he had broken a law, he should be tried by a civilian court.

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It's when I'm weary of considerations And life is too much like a pathless wood ; Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open.

那是每逢我厌倦于操心世事,而人生太像一片没有小径的森林,在里面摸索，一头撞在蛛网上，只感到验上又热辣，又痒痒，忽然，一根嫩枝迎面打来,那一只给打中了的眼睛疼得直掉泪。

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A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.

腰肢的猛一颤动,残破的墙垣，燃烧的屋顶和塔巅,阿伽门农死去。

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Hugh Gunn, 67, was diagnosed with severe prostate cancer seven years ago, but has not broken a bone.

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His brother suffered worse: a broken hand and a broken leg, among several other wounds.

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In doing so he has broken a tradition which is more than a century old.

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