I spent the flight here trying to get to grips with Andrew Motion's brick of a Keats biography.

在坐飞机到这的一路上，我试图解决掉Andrew Motion砖块般厚的济慈传记。

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For those who have not, it is a condition of flight in which lift is reduced to such an extent that normal flight ceases and the aircraft becomes a brick.

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