They used the swimming pool, rode, lazed in the deep shade of the oaks in the heat of the day.

他们在一天之中最热的时段去游泳池游泳，去骑马，在橡树的浓荫下消磨时间。

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To Donald Unger, a doctor in Thousand Oaks, California, who cracked the knuckles of his left hand, but never those on his right, every day for 60 years to investigate whether it caused arthritis.

授予加州千橡市的一名医生——唐纳德·昂格尔（Donald Unger），60年来的每一天，他把左手指节掰得咯吱作响，但从不掰右手指节，研究这样做是否会引起关节炎。

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ASHLEY: Can't we ever forget that day at Twelve Oaks?

希礼：难道我们不能忘了那天在十二橡树的事吗？

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Both, like all reserved seat Derby Tickets, are actually good for two days, and includes Kentucky Oaks Day on Friday, an equally thrilling and equally fancy dress rehearsal for the main event.

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Remember, all these packages also include the entire Kentucky Oaks Day, so in every case you get two full days of racing and hospitality, and with the better packages food and drink, for this price, in the same seats and same lounges, so come Derby Day, you know exactly where everything is.

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The lowest logs were now buried in the earth, as if returning to their birthplace, and from these logs, from the very lowest part of the hut, were growing two new weak branches, which would one day turn into mighty oaks and eat with their roots the dust of this dwelling that had been exhausted by the wind, the rain, and the human race.

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