I was building the house. A brick dropped.

我正在建房子。一块砖掉了下来。

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'I was a little nervous about losing the ring,' recalls the property developer, who dropped to one knee inside a cavernous red-brick storm drain.

当时，在一个红砖砌成的暴雨排水洞内，他单膝跪下。他回忆道，“我有点担心会把戒指丢了。”

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A brick dropped.

一块砖掉了下来。

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It took two years, 284 pounds of flour and all the ingenuity of her husband, Paul, who lined her stove with quarry tiles and, to produce the necessary burst of steam, dropped a brick into a pan of hot water at the bottom of the oven.

ECONOMIST: Julia Child, cookery teacher, died on August 13th, aged 91