As not to impede his study, he used a rope to tie his hair to the house beam so that if he fell asleep it would pull on his hair and he would immediately come awake.

为了不影响学习，他用绳子把自己的头发绑在房梁上，一打盹儿绳子就会拉住头发，整个人马上就清醒了。

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Two years afterwards, when Tobias was helping to build a house, a beam fell on him and killed him.

两年后，托比亚斯在帮忙盖房子时，一根横梁砸在他身上，把他砸死了。

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And that will be transmitted directly to the helicopter and, again, that would be transmitted up to a satellite which would then beam straight down to the White House.

这些镜头会直接传输给直升机，接着，会被传给卫星，卫星会直接传到白宫。

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