He talks about the line falling back, the sector evacuated, and so on and so forth, as though he were dug into a trench and writing a report to headquarters.

他讲到退却的防线和撤出的战区，以及诸如此类的事情，好像他正在一条战壕里向司令部写报告。

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Workers were evacuated, and police formed a line in front of the entrance to the building, leaving the protestors inside.

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The security line in which I waited for 15 minutes was urgently evacuated by a group of Polizei bearing machine guns, and I had to follow my line-colleauges through a beer garden and a duty-free shop to find another checkpoint with another 15-minute security line.

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