But they sat there and did not stir, and the fire caught their clothes.

他们却坐在那里一动不动，连衣服也被火烧了。

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They sat there billing and cooing till after midnight.

他们坐在那里窃窃私语直到后半夜。

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They sat there horrified as the television blared the awful news.

当电视里高声播发那个可怕的消息时他们坐在那里感到恐惧。

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They sat there for four hours.

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They would say there is a low correlation between SAT scores and grade point averages in college, or maybe it's a high correlation.

媒体会说,SAT成绩,和大学里的平均学分相关性很低,或相关性很高

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They sat there and they divided, okay, I'm going to see the women and children first.

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There was a paddock with sun on it, he said, and they sat there munching their stale sandwiches and drinking a tin of Pepsi-Cola each.

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"We tried to get them to look at the television and they just sat there looking at us as if we were crazy and then went on with their normal doggy life, " she laughs.

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