In Turnerian terminology, the frontier had furnished "a gate of escape from the bondage of the past."

用 Turnerian 的话来说，边境提供了“逃离过去束缚的大门”。

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This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four-miles' walk, arrived at Heathcliff's garden-gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snow-shower.

我拿了我的帽子，走了四英里的路，刚刚到希斯克利夫先生家的花园门口，天上也飘起了雪花。

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I took my hat, and, after a four-mile walk, arrived at Heathcliff's Garden gate, just in time to escape.

我拿了帽子，走了四里路，到达了希刺克厉夫的花园门口，刚好躲过了一场。

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Many suffocated in the crush of bodies that formed as fans attempting to flee the stadium found their escape blocked by a locked steel gate, survivors said.

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The trust believes the fly-tippers, upon realising they had blocked their exit, then sawed down wooden gate posts to make their escape.

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