For me, being laid off was like diving into cold water.

就我而言，被解雇就像是潜入了冷水中。

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That's why when a quivering pat of butter named Word Babcock walked into my office and laid his CARDS on the table, I should have trusted the cold chill that shot up my spine.

正是这个原因，当一个哆里哆嗦、名叫沃德·巴布考克的胖子走进我的办公室，并把名片放到桌上时，我本来应该相信从脊柱传来的那股寒意。

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Victor laid his coat over the pile of us. I wondered how he could stand the cold in his thin shirt, but he did not complain. Victor never complained.

维克托脱下他的外衣盖在我们身上。我不知道他就穿着薄薄的衬衣怎么抵御寒冷，但是他并没有抱怨。维克托从不抱怨。

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An American private laid another wreath in the cold dark cells where some Pilgrims were confined in 1607 while trying to escape to religious freedom in Holland.

WSJ: Thomas Fleming: An English Thanksgiving, 1942

Mordred was too weak to walk, so Douglas lifted him into the back of the Jeep for what we knew would be the final time, and we all gathered together on the cold linoleum of the vet's office as I bawled my heart out and Mordred laid his head on Douglas' lap, grateful for the comfort.

CNN: Lean on me: Loving and losing a dog

The next zone is where the cooking gets done two parallel lines of countertop, forty-some feet long and just three shoe-lengths apart, with fifteen people pivoting in place between the stovetops and grills on the hot side and the neatly laid-out bins of fixings (sauces, garnishes, seasonings, and the like) on the cold side.

NEWYORKER: Big Med