She placed a cushion under his head, and offered him some water; he rejected the latter, and tossed uneasily on the former, as if it were a stone or a block of wood.

她把一个靠垫枕在他的头下，给他一点水喝。他拒绝喝水，又在靠垫上不舒服地翻来复去，好像那是块石头或是块木头似的。

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Birdlike, he retired at dusk, lying on the bare floor with a wooden block under his head like a pillow.

他像小鸟一样，黄昏就寝，用木板作枕头，躺在光秃秃的地板上。

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The halyard typically rises from the head of the sail to a block at the head of the mast and back down to deck level, from where it is pulled up to raise the sail.

升降索通常从帆的前侧延伸到桅杆顶端，然后下降到甲板平面，在甲板上拉起升降索就能升起船帆。

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It may not impress the voters either who might argue that your head is either on the block - or frankly, nowhere near it.

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Bruce Leslie, who worked with the White House on per-capita caps as a Senate staffer in 1997 and is now the head of First Focus, said per-person caps are better than block grants, but the policy is unusually difficult to write into law.

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