The house looked as if it was about to fall down.

房子看起来好像就要倒塌似的。

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Surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep, because your brain is thinking about work.

所有读到这篇文章的人肯定都有过这样的经历：因为脑子在想着工作，躺在床上好几个小时都无法入睡。

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The 5-year-old boy was just about to fall asleep when he heard a loud noise from the bathroom he hurried to have a look.

5岁的小男孩正要睡着，这时他听到从浴室传来一声巨响，他急忙去看。

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Tourism industry officials expect visitor arrivals to fall to about one million less than had been expected, because of the protests.

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The leaves are about to fall but they haven't yet fallen.

这些叶子似坠非坠。

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Six-month-olds don't, and even 12-month-olds don't find anything weird about this, while adults are sophisticated enough to understand that that's an unstable configuration and should fall over.

六个月大的婴儿则不会这么想,即使是十二个月大的婴儿,也没有发现这个木块存在的异常,只有经历世事的成年人才会理解,这不是个稳定的结构,而这个结构是会倒塌的

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New home sales are expected to fall about 10.4 percent, from 1.06 million in 2006 to 950, 000 this year.

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Lexmark now thinks its fourth-quarter sales are going to fall about 17.0%, a bit worse than its previous previous guidance, which predicted a drop in the low- to mid-teen range.

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This, too, demands large spending cuts (inflation-adjusted discretionary spending would need to fall by about 25% by 2010).

ECONOMIST: Republican fiscal policies