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At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at the candle which was burning there.

正在这时，门房的玻璃窗自动开了，一只手从窗口伸进来，拿着钥匙和烛台，凑到另一支燃着的细烛上接了火。

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The same women would appear sometimes at the wood-frame house, where her family of 11 lived in three rooms, burning coal-oil and hauling water from the spring, and offer them second-hand clothes.

那些女士们有时会出现在她那木头房子里——她的11个家人挤在三个房间里，靠烧煤油和汲取泉水生活，为他们提供的二手衣服。

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His hand went to the fire and he pulled a burning stick from it.

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Half the Olympic program, on the other hand, was given over to religious ritual: processions, hymn-singing, incense-burning, gory animal sacrifice and strange incantations by exotically attired priests.

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Isaac Azimov, who was burning all his story ideas and first drafts in the barbecue pit in his garden, was encouraged instead to hand them over.

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"He was very afraid of fire, very scared of burning, " she said, describing his complaints after mere steam from hot tea once left a mark on his hand.

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