Occasionally the language slackens into cliché: “we were finally addressing the elephant in the room”; “I could get into a sticky situation”; “I hadn’t quite passed the sniff test”.

小说中的语言偶尔会松散到陈词滥调，如“我们最后在屋子里对大象演讲“。 “我能进入沼泽”“我没有通过这个不屑的测试”。

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Finally, the day passed, and at a quarter past ten at night, we were safely on the moving ship.

这一天终于过去了，到了晚上十点一刻，我们坐船安全出发了。

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After two days we finally arrived at the small village, only to be told that the old man had passed away.

两天之后我们终于到了这个小村，(使我们失望的是)村民们告诉我们那个老人去世了。

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But we finally passed a good campaign finance reform bill through the House.

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We finally passed health care reform to make sure that health care is affordable and available for every single American in the United States. (Applause.) And as part of reform, insurance companies will cover preventive care like mammograms with no out-of-pocket costs.

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And it's why we passed reform that finally prevents the health insurance industry from exploiting patients.

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