Flowerdew, fell in love with Mis Sharp, being shot dead by a glance of her eyes which was fired all the way across Chiswick Church from the school pew to the reading-desk.

他仅仅是瞟了一下她的双眼，就完全被攻陷，从奇西克教堂学校长椅到读经台这一路上，心里都像有团熊熊烈火。

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When he was not studying science, geography and math, Besart was seated next to Louhivuori's desk, taking books from a tall stack, slowly reading one, then another.

当贝萨特不学习科学、地理和数学时，他就坐在 Louhivuori 的书桌旁，从一大堆书里拿出来一些，一本接着一本地阅读。

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We eat while watching TV, we munch on something at our desk at work, we crunch on something while driving and drink something while reading or waiting.

看电视时吃点小零食，工作时嘴里嚼嚼东西，开车时吃点东西，阅读或者等候时也会来点喝的。

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But with reading e-mail on our smartphone or tablet becoming the New Normal , not the exception, Roth suggests what you actually need is an e-mail signature for the increasingly-special cases when you are actually desk-bound, reading Microsoft Outlook.

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Born in 1791, Faraday started out as an apprentice book-binder, reading everything that passed across his desk.

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The two-story, English walnut-lined room has five reading nooks, a work desk that can be hidden behind two sliding doors, and a spiral staircase that leads to a catwalk of books and the master bedroom.

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