Clogged pipes caused drain water to back up into the room.

水管堵塞，排出去的水倒灌入室。

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Sometimes we can get away with finding a dark, enclosed ally-way to quickly drain the lizard on the walk back from the bar, but in some places this is simply not possible.

有时候，我们可以在回酒吧黑乎乎的封闭通道上快点解决一下，但是在一些地方，这根本就是不可能的。

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If another log checkpoint record is encountered while it is in drain mode, it goes back to buffering mode.

如果服务器处于排出模式下时遇到另一条日志检查点记录，那么它会回到缓冲模式。

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He had gone missing on Tuesday and was eventually coaxed back out of the drain by the sound of his owner's voice.

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Officers, who had been investigating reports of drain covers being stolen in the area, stopped the van, being driven by Leith, and found nearly 20 drain covers in the back.

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In a soft-spoken but fiercely candid way, he talks about the city's seemingly insurmountable problems--high crime and unemployment, miserable schools, government cronyism, urban blight, a continuing brain drain, relentless push-back against painful cuts and, above all, the debt, the mountainous debt.

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