They attacked him unaware when he was reading.

他们趁他看书不注意时袭击了他。

youdao

But two days ago, the scientist's son encountered several kidnappers when he was reading an encyclopedia.

但两天前；科学家的儿子在读一本百科全书的时候遇到几个绑匪。

youdao

When he was reading or writing. I would sit beside him. But very soon I would doze off snoring away with my heAD on his desk.

当他看书或是写什么的时候，我就坐在他旁边，但是不一会儿我就会伏在桌上呼呼睡起来。

youdao

He says they remain in demand. Spence started reading Astrix when he was young.

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When not writing, he was reading voraciously or playing the flute to professional standard.

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And when not reading he was writing: letters, diaries, poems, 250, 000 words during the war alone.

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Mr Erdogan himself, at the time the Welfare mayor of Istanbul, was caught in the judicial net when he was briefly jailed for reading an Islamist poem in public.

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